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Reactivating Apostolic Movements in our Time

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.

Alan Hirsch
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Alan Hirsch is one of 27 movement leaders publishing on Movemental.

About Movemental

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.

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  • The six themes

    The major bodies of thought, each with where it came from and what it asks of you.

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  • The library

    Books, articles, talks, and teaching — the original material, read directly.

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  • AI Lab Workbench

    The Research & Praxis Workbench grounded in Alan's 14-volume canon. Trace theological trajectories, run movement diagnostics, and generate cohort blueprints.

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AI Lab · Research & Praxis Workbench

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.

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Open Manuscript

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.

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Alan Hirsch

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.”

Chapter 00 · Why the Center Matters
  1. Open: Peer Margin DialogueSelected Movemental peers will interact directly with Alan's manuscript in the margins. Member access will open as margin threads go live.

Alan's Notebook

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.

  • Quotation + noteAlan's note · 2008

    “Our concern here is not with the Greek ideal of the imitation of God (mimēsis theou), but with the distinctly Christian conviction that ethics begins in Christology. Christian ethics takes its shape from the New Testament’s call to follow Christ (akoloutheō). Following Christ is the decisive act from which the Christian life unfolds.”
    — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Explorations in Theology, v.I

    Alan's note: Akoloutheō precedes mimēsis. Discipleship is not copying a moral ideal; it is participating in a living Person.

    Archive #0142 · ChristologyKeep this

  • ReflectionDrawn from Notebook · 2004

    “There are moments of serendipity that can briefly carry us into a reality more profound and more vibrant. An old mystic describes such moments as bringing the ‘wheel of his rationality’ to a halt… we are released from this mental activity and placed, in the pure simplicity of the spirit, directly before that which lies beyond ourselves.”
    — Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism

    Alan's note: Halting the noise of the gramophone within so the wild bird song beyond can be heard. Contemplation cleanses the doors of perception.

    Archive #0528 · ContemplationKeep this

  • Revisited note · 2026Then & Now

    Original 1999 note: “The living God remains forever the eternal Thou, the One who is present, whom human beings can only encounter and never possess… The images topple, but the voice is never silenced.” (Moore on Buber)

    Alan, revisited today: Every theology that tries to freeze God in an institutional image must be shattered. The voice continues to speak in every event and crisis.

    Archive #1084 · IconoclasmKeep this
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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.

Live Room

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Danielle StricklandDanielle Strickland
  • Brad Brisco
  • Dhati Lewis
  • Deb Hirsch
  • Bree Mills
  • Meghan Larissa Good
  • Tiffany Smith
  • Jeremy & Monica Chambers
  • Liz Ríos
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Next gathering: Fourth Tuesday every month · 6:00 PM CST

Coming soon · APEST Teams

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.

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Team mapSample team
Team map for Restoration Road Community Church. Each row is a gift; each column is a person. Strong means the gift is one of that person's two strongest.
GiftMWPNJOSRDPPeople strong in this gift
ApostolicStrongNot strongNot strongNot strongNot strongOne person
PropheticNot strongStrongNot strongNot strongStrong2
EvangelisticNot strongNot strongNot strongStrongNot strongOne person
ShepherdingNot strongStrongStrongStrongNot strong3
TeachingStrongNot strongStrongNot strongStrong3
A filled dot is one of that person's two strongest gifts. The apostolic and evangelistic gifts each rest on one person.

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 Network 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.

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“Everything the church needs for movement is already within it — placed there by the risen Jesus, waiting to be remembered.”