Membership
His newest writing before it's published, a monthly live session with Alan, and an AI Lab built on forty years of his books.
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What you're joining
He meets members live every month, he's writing a new book, and he's going back through forty years of notes. As a member you see it as it happens, and you can ask him about it.
Membership brings you closer to the work. It does not promise individual access to Alan or a personal response to every contribution.
First session: Thursday, October 15, 6:00 pm Central
Alan and a guest take questions from members. Bring a real situation from your church or team. Some members are invited onto video to talk it through with Alan.
“We're trying to decentralize leadership, but every attempt seems to create more anxiety. How do you know when the resistance is something to work through versus something telling you the structure is wrong?”
Ready the day you join
The Lab has read everything Alan has published. Ask it about your situation and it answers from the books, so you can go and read the full argument.
AI Lab
How does APEST change the way a leadership team makes decisions?
AskAnswers show which of Alan's books they come from.
Coming soon
Members read each chapter as Alan drafts it. You'll also see what other movement leaders say to him about it, in notes beside the text.
From the draft introduction
Centered?
What is your center? And why it matters.
“Every system reveals its center through what it produces… 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.”
Coming soon
Alan has kept more than 20,000 private notes over the years: quotes from what he was reading and what he thought about them. He is choosing some to share with members for the first time.
Alan's note · 2008
“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
Alan wrote underneath: Discipleship is not copying a moral ideal; it is participating in a living Person.
You also get a digital copy of The Forgotten Ways, the book that started this conversation, to keep.
Where the money goes
| Model | Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| $15 on a book | Author | $1.50 |
| $15 on a book | Retailer | $7.50 |
| $15 on a book | Publisher | $4.50 |
| $15 on a book | Printing | $1.50 |
| $15 on a membership | Alan | $13.50 |
| $15 on a membership | Movemental | $1.50 |
$15 on a book
a typical new hardcover
$1.50
goes to the author
$15 on a membership
a month on alanhirsch.com
$13.50
goes to Alan
FROM ALAN
I have always done my best thinking in company. Membership is how I want to keep doing it: in the open, with people who are actually trying this in their own places.
If you're not sure yet, try a practice first. If nothing moves, don't join. If it does, come in and argue with me.
ALAN'S NOTES
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