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Challenging Nominal Christianity
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
being committed to the gospel should include ways of breaking down the barriers between people and the gospel.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
Soon enough, the most central question for both mainline and evangelical pastors was, How can we reach more and more people? They did not ask how they could testify to God’s eternity breaking into time. They asked how they could keep from losing pace up against the threat of secular 2.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
We cannot divorce mercy from mission or carry out our mission without power.
Alan Scott • Scattered Servants: Unleashing the Church to Bring Life to the City
Interestingly, DMEs are more prone to thinking we are now in the end times (70% versus 58% for CMEs) in our survey. They also have a higher overall “prosperity gospel” score than those who are churched (59% versus 43%).
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
most of the dechurching has happened in the last twenty-five years and is accelerating.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
and thereby sanctifying the ordinary,
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Particularly among evangelicals, there is more danger of dechurching on the right than on the left.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Figure 4.2. Reasons for Leaving Church