Alan Hirsch

Founder, 5Q Collective

ALAN HIRSCH is widely considered to be a global thought-leader on missional movements and leadership.  Hirsch is the author of numerous award winning books including The Forgotten Ways, The Shaping of Things to Come, 5QReJesus , Reframation, Untamedand The Permanent Revolution.  He has worked with churches and organizations across the world, but mainly in North America, Europe, and Australia. Alan is a founder of the Movement Leaders Collective, Forge Mission Training Network, and the 5Q Collective. He is movement mentor for NewThing International and is a consultant for Redeemer City To City among others. His experience includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized, developing training systems for innovative missional leadership, training leaders in movement dynamics, and heading up the mission and revitalization work of his denomination.

Articles

July 31, 2017

Paradigm Shifts

  In this training video from Exponential East 2017, Alan Hirsch discusses the various characteristics of level 5 multiplication that require paradigm shifts. A shift...

February 15, 2017

Keys to Culture and to the Human Heart | Alan Hirsch

Holiness is not abstraction … it’s missional, it’s redemptive, and brings back that which is lost. – Alan Hirsch In this podcast from Exponential East...

February 10, 2017

5 Big Reasons for a New, Deeper Look at The Forgotten Ways

Few resources in today’s church leader space have been as life-changing and as church-changing to its readers as Alan Hirsch’s 2006 best-selling book, The Forgotten...

December 2, 2016

Why a Return to APEST Is Essential to Multiplying the Church

As the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and a prolific author, Alan Hirsch is a preeminent voice in the Church. Specifically in the...

November 1, 2015

Becoming a Level Five Church

There is no doubt in my mind that we are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our day as we witness the adoption of a...

May 22, 2014

Recovering Jesus-Shaped Discipleship

Over the years, I have found myself having to talk about a distinctly missional understanding of discipleship. I actually find this a bit odd. The...