4 Quotes & Sayings By Alan Hirsch

Dr. Alan Hirsch is an internationally renowned expert in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. As Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, he has conducted groundbreaking research on the biological and psychological basis of human behavior for more than 35 years. His research has been published in over 180 scientific papers and in peer-reviewed journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, and Science Read more

Dr. Hirsch is also recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the biology and treatment of mood disorders such as depression and anxiety. He received his B.A., M.D., from Cornell University, and his M.D., Ph.D., from UCLA's School of Medicine, where he trained with eminent psychologists such as Stanley Schachter and Hans Eysenck.

Dr. Hirsch has served on several editorial boards and chaired several nationally recognized scientific societies including: the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), NAS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Dr.

Hirsch is a member of Mensa International, which is an association for people with superior intelligence. He is also a Fellow with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academies (NA); a member of The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology; a Fellow with The American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of The Speakers Forum; a Fellow with The Institute for Noetic Sciences; a Fellow with The California Council for Science & Technology; a member of The American Board of Preventive Medicine; a Fellow with The Academy of Psychoanalysis; a Fellow with The American Association for Applied & Integrative Medicine; a Fellow with The American Board of Medical Specialties; a Member with Phi Beta Kappa Society; a Member with Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; a Fellow with Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society in honoris causa at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City; and, most recently, on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland where he serves as Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, where he continues to conduct research into what causes depression and anxiety disorders such as panic attacks or social anxiety disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder or schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease or drug addiction or post traumatic stress disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism ability to learn ability to concentrate difficulty learning ability to focus difficulty concentrating difficulty focusing difficulty learning

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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension. Alan Hirsch
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If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me took action in the power of the Spirit. Ever since the mission and ministry of Jesus, God has never stopped calling for a movement of "Little Jesuses" to follow him into the world and unleash the remarkable redemptive genius that lies in the very message we carry. Given the situation of the Church in the West, much will now depend on whether we are willing to break out of a stifling herd instinct and find God again in the context of the advancing kingdom of God. Alan Hirsch
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Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens.. as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it’s done in the context of discipleship. Here’s the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship. Alan Hirsch