Alan Hirsch is brilliant ok! Hands down he has a clear prophetic message for the Church.

His talk was on 4 areas in which we must recover the ancient ethos, our primal stories

1) Recovery of the Centrality of Jesus in His own movement. Ecclesiology must flow out of Missiology which flows out of our Christology. Jesus as the founder sets the template for the church.

2) Recovery of Disciple making as our core task. Movements can only grow to the capacity in which they reproduce disciples.

3) Recovering the ethos of Apostolic Movement. Movements mobilize the whole people of God.

“Every believer a church planter, every church a church planting church.” – Chinese church slogan

4) Recovery of an incarnational mission impulse. Christ as our example of a missional God who incarnates himself into humanity and the church is to follow that example.