John Hirt OAM (born 1943) is an Australian pastor, educator, and one of the leaders of the radical discipleship movement in Australia.
[3] Hirt was one of the founders of the House of the New World in Sydney, described by one church historian as “a Christian counter-cultural experiment”.
[9] Hirt has been a campaigner for many years on issues of peace, nuclear disarmament, and social justice,[10] and he has linked this with the notion of radical Christian discipleship.
[11] In 1985, the Avalon Peace Baptist Church, at which he was then pastor, had a brick thrown through a glass pane of a door , as a result his advocacy for refugees from Central America.
[12] His family have also joined him in his activism, notably his wife Carol who is the Manager of Epworth House for students at Leichhart Uniting Church,[13] His son is Jono Hirt who is the Sydney Presbytery Communications Manager.