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Good faith : being a Christian when society thinks you're irrelevant and extreme / David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 283 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801013171
  • 0801013178
  • 9780801019180
  • 0801019184
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I. Understanding our times. Bad faith, good faith ; Irrelevant ; Extreme ; The tension we feel and why -- Part II. Living good faith. Love, believe, live ; The right questions ; Who will lead? ; Assimilate or accommodate ; After the revolution ; Marriage, family, and friendships ; Life, death, and disability ; Race and prejudice ; The gay conversation ; We can't live without intimacy ; Five ways to be faithful -- Part III. The Church and our future. Firm center, soft edges ; Church in a new world ; Faithful in exile.
Summary: It is easy to feel overwhelmed as we try to live faithfully in a culture that seems increasingly hostile to the Christian faith. With a growing backlash against religion and people of faith, it's harder than ever to hold onto our convictions while treating friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even family members who disagree with respect and compassion. Based on groundbreaking research, this timely book by the bestselling authors of unChristian explores politics, sexuality, race, gender, and religious freedom, helping you: · respond with compassion, clarity and confidence to the most toxic issues of our day · discover the most significant cultural trends that are creating both obstacles and opportunities for Christians · know what you believe and why it doesn't make you a judgmental or extreme person · stop being afraid to talk about what you believe and start having meaningful conversations about tough issues · understand the heart behind opposing views and learn how to stay friends across differences. - inside front flap
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Many Christians today feel overwhelmed as they try to live faithfully in a culture that seems increasingly hostile to their beliefs. Politics, marriage, sexuality, religious freedom--with an ever-growing list of contentious issues, believers find it harder than ever to hold on to their convictions while treating their friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even family members who disagree with respect and compassion. This isn't just a problem that affects individual Christians; if left unaddressed, the growing gap between the faithful and society's tolerance for public faith will have lasting consequences for the church in America.

Now the bestselling authors of unChristian turn their data-driven insights toward the thorny question of how Christians talk with people they know and love about the most toxic issues of our day. They help today's disciples understand what they believe and why, and how to keep believing it without being judgmental and defensive. Readers will discover the most significant trends that offer both obstacles and opportunities to God's people, and how not only to challenge culture but to create and renew it for the common good. Perhaps most importantly, David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons invite fellow Christians to understand the heart behind opposing views and show them how to be loving, life-giving friends despite profound differences. This will be the go-to book for young adult and older believers who don't want to hide from culture but to engage and restore it.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276).

Part I. Understanding our times. Bad faith, good faith ; Irrelevant ; Extreme ; The tension we feel and why -- Part II. Living good faith. Love, believe, live ; The right questions ; Who will lead? ; Assimilate or accommodate ; After the revolution ; Marriage, family, and friendships ; Life, death, and disability ; Race and prejudice ; The gay conversation ; We can't live without intimacy ; Five ways to be faithful -- Part III. The Church and our future. Firm center, soft edges ; Church in a new world ; Faithful in exile.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed as we try to live faithfully in a culture that seems increasingly hostile to the Christian faith. With a growing backlash against religion and people of faith, it's harder than ever to hold onto our convictions while treating friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even family members who disagree with respect and compassion. Based on groundbreaking research, this timely book by the bestselling authors of unChristian explores politics, sexuality, race, gender, and religious freedom, helping you: · respond with compassion, clarity and confidence to the most toxic issues of our day · discover the most significant cultural trends that are creating both obstacles and opportunities for Christians · know what you believe and why it doesn't make you a judgmental or extreme person · stop being afraid to talk about what you believe and start having meaningful conversations about tough issues · understand the heart behind opposing views and learn how to stay friends across differences. - inside front flap

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