The church was made for movement
Four decades of books, teaching, and movement thinking—gathered into one living body of work, with new work still emerging.
Six doorways into the work
Each theme is a portal, not a content category — a way into formation, mission, and the recovery of apostolic movement.
Go in through the ideas instead.
If you've read the books, you don't need the front door. Six themes organise four decades of thinking; the library holds the original material; the AI Lab lets you interrogate the whole corpus and follow the citations back.
The six themes
ExploreThe major bodies of thought, each with where it came from and what it asks of you.
The library
BrowseBooks, articles, talks, and teaching — the original material, read directly.
AI Lab Workbench
EnterThe Research & Praxis Workbench grounded in Alan's 14-volume canon. Trace theological trajectories, run movement diagnostics, and generate cohort blueprints.
Content Library
Books, courses, articles, and more.
Theological research & movement praxis across 14 volumes.
Alan Hirsch's published canon spans 14 books and 20+ years of intellectual output—sitting at the unique intersection of rigorous systematic theology, organizational systems dynamics, and grassroots discipleship praxis.
Rather than generic document summarization, the AI Lab operates as an authoritative research and praxis workbench. Equipped with multi-mode analytical lenses, it serves academic researchers, denominational networks, movement strategists, pastoral cohorts, and church teams with verified chapter citations and field-ready strategic deliverables.
Read the next book while Alan is still writing it.
Alan is beginning a new book around a deceptively simple question: What is your center? And why does it matter?
Members will be able to follow the manuscript chapter by chapter as it develops—not only reading Alan's work before publication, but seeing the conversation it provokes among trusted Movemental peers in the margins.
Members can read the dialogue around the manuscript as other movement leaders engage Alan while the work is still becoming.
Centered?
What is your center? And why it matters.
A developing book on Jesus-, gospel-, and Bible-centeredness.
“Every system reveals its center through what it produces. It does not take long to be in a church community to discern what is functioning as its gravitational reality. The center is never a decorative feature sitting politely at the edge of church life… A wheel finds its integrity through its hub; move the hub and every spoke reorganizes around a new alignment, whether anyone intended this or not.”
Selected Movemental peers will interact directly with Alan's manuscript in the margins. Member access will open as margin threads go live.
A window into the working notebook behind the work.
Alan has accumulated more than 20,000 private notes over decades of reading, thinking, questioning, and doing theology. Some are substantial reflections. Some are quotations, observations, fragments, or marginalia. Most have never been published.
Members receive carefully selected notes brought into the light for the first time, while preserving the difference between Alan's original note and anything later edited or revisited.
You are in the room.
Live gatherings bring you closer to Alan's work and put you in the room with him.
Once a month, Alan sits down with another Movemental leader and a small room of participants.
Your team has a fivefold pattern too.
Each person in your group already holds a 5Q report naming their vocational pattern across the five functions Christ gave his Body. APEST Teams will read those reports together and produce one team report that everyone reads.
| Gift | MW | PN | JO | SR | DP | People strong in this gift |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic | Strong | Not strong | Not strong | Not strong | Not strong | One person |
| Prophetic | Not strong | Strong | Not strong | Not strong | Strong | 2 |
| Evangelistic | Not strong | Not strong | Not strong | Strong | Not strong | One person |
| Shepherding | Not strong | Strong | Strong | Strong | Not strong | 3 |
| Teaching | Strong | Not strong | Strong | Not strong | Strong | 3 |
About Alan Hirsch
ALAN HIRSCH is a global thought-leader on missional movements and leadership. He is the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Forgotten Ways, The Shaping of Things to Come, 5Q, ReJesus, Reframation, Untamed, The Permanent Revolution, and, most recently, Metanoia. He has worked with churches and organizations worldwide, with a primary focus in North America, Europe, and Australia. Alan is a founder of the Movement Leaders Collective, Forge Mission Training Network, and the 5Q Collective. He serves as movement mentor for NewThing International and resident consultant for Redeemer City to City, among other roles. His experience spans leading a local church movement among the marginalized, developing training systems for innovative missional leadership, training leaders in movement dynamics, and heading the mission and revitalization work of his denomination.
“Everything the church needs for movement is already within it — placed there by the risen Jesus, waiting to be remembered.”