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This might exist the best concise introduction to modernistic Western missiology out at that place written by a abrupt and seasoned practitioner. Tim Keller distills the major insights of his usual cadre of scholars - Lesslie Newbigin, Robert Bellah, Charles Taylor, James Davison Hunter, Kyle Harper and more. He as well draws inspiration from the early Church'southward missionary methods, seeing the first-century Roman world equally parallel to a secularizing Western liberal earth; both are hostile to Christianity, though the l This might be the best concise introduction to modern Western missiology out there written by a sharp and seasoned practitioner. Tim Keller distills the major insights of his usual cadre of scholars - Lesslie Newbigin, Robert Bellah, Charles Taylor, James Davison Hunter, Kyle Harper and more than. He likewise draws inspiration from the early on Church's missionary methods, seeing the start-century Roman world as parallel to a secularizing Western liberal earth; both are hostile to Christianity, though the latter has the added obstacle of being Postal service-Christian (still, Keller encouragingly muses that the Reformation and evangelical revivals were unprecedented until they happened and that this gives us hope that a Christian revival may very well happen in a post-Christian context, p. 57). Keller wants Christians to chart a eye basis betwixt partisan liberal and conservative political camps; in Keller'south vision, Christianity is socially conservative just more than economically but and intolerant of racism than Republican orthodoxy. However, evangelicals tend to not exist likewise well-known equally economical reform advocates; what would happen if Albert Mohler devoted the rest of his life to condign a matrimony activist?

Some insights I especially appreciated included Keller's discussion of our electric current sexual culture, with the #MeToo move revealing the depth and breadth of sexual turmoil; Keller shrewdly states "The Christian view requires sexual practice to e'er exist SUPER-consensual—just for people ready to give their whole lives to each other" (p. 36). Keller notes that in a culture whose denizens abandon or avoid going to church, the best missionaries get not seminary-trained pastors just laypeople who interact with their peers and colleagues in the marketplace and public square. Keller writes "Within Christendom, it is the clergy who accept 'all the answers' for how to exercise mission. But pastors do non know enough well-nigh every vocational field to know how the gospel influences work in that sector. In this try, clergy and laypeople sit down every bit equals—each with some knowledge the other does not take—to plan for Christian witness in public life" (p. 49 - reminds me of Regent College's original ethos!).

I am surprised that Keller neglects to mention the missiology of figures such as Andrew F. Walls and Lamin Sanneh. I think that our increasingly digitized lives tin lead to a sense of isolation and loneliness (despite the ways social media connects usa, these are not equally meaningful as incarnational interactions) and this is where church can offering some tangible and life-giving to people; the church is full of saints and sinners and a lot of them are quirky (p. 24). However, one point I'd like to printing Keller on is his advocacy of cities. Keller is correct that cities are bastions of cultural capital (New York and London concord more influence than Lenexa, Kansas and Torridge, England. Cities tend to be more diverse, have larger populations, and incorporate universities, business concern districts, art venues, and other places of culture. But the very dynamism that makes cities such attractive places to live and hotbeds of culture also makes them more than prone to fluidity and ephemeral relationships (I knew i small group in Vancouver that started with nigh 10-12 people and was down to ii by the end of the year). I recollect about Gracy Olmstead's forthcoming volume "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind" or the Pierce Pettis lines "Some left for college, same could just dream / Hanging effectually town, however wearing their high school rings / I avert their faces when I come to town / Human, I notwithstanding don't know which 1 of us has let the other down." Keller holds to Hunter's "true-blue presence" approach to civilization - be active in mainstream, progressive civilization while remaining true to your Christian convictions - rather than the defensive posture that characterizes many conservatives; significantly, rural areas tend to exist more than conservative than urban districts. Yet I wonder if the pocket-size-town West might be amend able to foster the "thick" communities that go out a meaningful impact on people's lives BECAUSE people who live here have either called to stay or are unable to go out; information technology tin can exist exhausting trying to befriend people in a urban center because of how transient metropolis civilization can be. Of class, I am probably seeing the small-town West through sentimentalized lenses and if cities ARE more liberal and secular so that is where Christians are MOST needed as on-the-ground missionaries.

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Mar 21, 2020 Tim Casteel rated it it was amazing

So much wisdom in this short niggling book. Worth reading if but for the footnotes - to encounter which books accept been almost helpful to Keller in understanding the collapse of Western Civilization and the decline of American Christianity.

"For ane,000 years, the Western church's basic ministry model was premised on the social reality that people would exist coming, prepared, and positive, and we could merely preach our sound biblical sermons to them.

If information technology is true that more than and more than people lack whatsoever religious

And then much wisdom in this short lilliputian book. Worth reading if but for the footnotes - to come across which books have been nearly helpful to Keller in agreement the collapse of Western Civilization and the decline of American Christianity.

"For 1,000 years, the Western church'due south bones ministry building model was premised on the social reality that people would exist coming, prepared, and positive, and we could only preach our sound biblical sermons to them.

If information technology is truthful that more and more people lack any religious foundation and that the dominant cultural narratives are making the Christian organized religion more than offensive, then nosotros must detect new and compelling ways to share the gospel in this generation."

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Astute analysis from Keller as e'er. The solutions he offers were robustly biblical, creative, and yet in touch with roots of creedal historic orthodox Christianity.

This brusk little booklet (just under 60 pages) is written to address what the Christian Church needs to focus on in a post-Christian western society. Not so much a "how-to" but a "why-to" and "think-through" kind of approach. It's an easy read that may envelope well-nigh an hour of 1's fourth dimension.

Keller brings out the manner the story has changed in the West and this post-Christian globe is asking different questions from dissimilar perspectives than in the by. But too that it is narrating different tal

This short little booklet (just nether sixty pages) is written to address what the Christian Church needs to focus on in a post-Christian western society. Not so much a "how-to" but a "why-to" and "call back-through" kind of approach. It's an easy read that may envelope almost an 60 minutes of one'due south time.

Keller brings out the style the story has changed in the West and this post-Christian earth is asking different questions from unlike perspectives than in the past. But also that it is narrating unlike tales and plot-lines. And then the author goes on to point out how Bible-assertive, Gospel-embracing churches and denominations need to realize where nosotros are now and to run into better how to come up at where we are. This postal service-Christendom evangelistic dynamic includes attention, attraction, demonstration, and confidence. The author draws from the way the earlier church subtly impacted late Roman culture, and makes some simple conclusions. I found many of them worthwhile to think through and study, especially the section on our demand to exist pioneers of civility, as well equally his stress on setting up a counter-catechesis for our digital historic period.

Here-and-there brilliant observations rise to the surface, every bit well. For example Keller asserts that the "early Christian community was both offensive and bonny. But believers did not construct the customs as a mode to reach Roman culture. Rather,...Christians sought to submit to biblical authorization" (29). That argument seriously challenges the symbiotic liberal and bourgeois approaches to church that create experience-venues primarily to gain ascendancy and audiences. Thank you lot, Tim, for pointing that out!

In the stop, the teeny book is worth purchasing, pouring over and pondering. At that place were items hither and there that I took issue with, specifically the multi-racial aspect that didn't requite any idea to a free-market religious surroundings. But information technology's a small book, and information technology doesn't take the space to address such things to my satisfaction. All said, this is a book I can happily recommend for church building leaders to discuss.

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Mar x, 2020 Shihong Zu rated it it was amazing

Ok, and so this is a brusk (<60pg), free read from Tim Keller. It's obvious that he has thought carefully and thoroughly on the outcome of being non of the globe, just in it. I would go so far to say that with discernment, every Christian boomer, gen x, millennial, gen z who alive and exhale in the West should read this and be encouraged by Keller'due south wisdom and balance in his approach to how to think through social justice issues, how to dialogue politically, and still be salt and calorie-free in their public Ok, so this is a short (<60pg), gratuitous read from Tim Keller. It's obvious that he has thought carefully and thoroughly on the issue of existence not of the world, but in it. I would go so far to say that with discernment, every Christian boomer, gen x, millennial, gen z who live and breathe in the West should read this and be encouraged by Keller's wisdom and residuum in his arroyo to how to remember through social justice issues, how to dialogue politically, and however be salt and lite in their public spheres of influence. This curt manifesto is fantastic. ...more

Keller looks at the sociological and spiritual obstacles and opportunities in reaching the due west today. It's piece of cake when y'all are a missionary in a culture to go a pupil of that culture and work out means to reach it. The more we belong to the civilisation the more than we fail to approach the culture as missionaries. Keller reminds us that we are all missionaries sent by God and that we need the creativity of missionaries in thinking through new ways to preach the unchanging gospel in new contexts.

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Keller looks at the sociological and spiritual obstacles and opportunities in reaching the due west today. It's easy when y'all are a missionary in a culture to go a student of that culture and work out ways to accomplish it. The more we belong to the culture the more we neglect to approach the civilisation every bit missionaries. Keller reminds us that nosotros are all missionaries sent by God and that we need the creativity of missionaries in thinking through new ways to preach the unchanging gospel in new contexts.

This would be a good essay to discuss with Christian friends or a church staff team. I noticed a helpful discussion guide on the Redeemer CTC website.

I particularly enjoyed his metaphor about how secular world views compression and rip and how Christians need to show how the gospel fits.

"All worldviews that are not biblically based are like a suit of clothes that are likewise small. Such dress always uncomfortably pinch—and occasionally they actually rip. The tardily modern view of reality and the self does not fit human nature as God designed it. At that place are times in which stories and art reveal how today's beliefs pinch and fail to satisfy. There are other times—especially times of pain—that the belatedly modern worldview "rips" and wholly fails to provide what is needed to face such experiences. Christians need to be prepared in these moments to "requite an answer to everyone who asks [them] to give the reason for the hope that [they] take" (ane Peter 3:15)."

I likewise enjoyed this quote from Langdon Gilkey on the difference between moralism and grace.

"Religion is not the place where the problem of human's egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between homo pride and God's grace takes place. Insofar as human pride may win the battle, religion tin and does go one of the instruments of human being sin. But insofar as there the self does meet God and and then can surrender to something beyond its own self-interest, religion may provide the 1 possibility for a much needed and very rare release from our common self-business."

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January 06, 2022 Mike E. rated it it was astonishing

In just a few pages Keller masterfully helps the Christian, especially the thoughtful Christian, how to collaborate with the mail service-Christian civilisation that surrounds u.s. in 2022–and the foreseeable futurity.
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Today's civilisation believes the thing we demand salvation from is the idea that nosotros need salvation. (7)

Our traditional models of biblical and spiritual formation through just a few hours of public worship time and a community group are insufficient for countering the impact of 24/7 digital

In just a few pages Keller masterfully helps the Christian, especially the thoughtful Christian, how to interact with the mail-Christian culture that surrounds us in 2022–and the foreseeable time to come.
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Today's culture believes the thing we need salvation from is the idea that we need conservancy. (seven)

Our traditional models of biblical and spiritual formation through simply a few hours of public worship time and a customs group are insufficient for countering the bear on of 24/7 digital engineering throughout the week. (9)

Christian high theory must get-go expose the main flaws in our culture'due south narratives, showing how they fit neither man nature nor our nearly profound intuitions nigh life — permit solitary its own moral ideals. So, Christian theory must point to the beauty & truth of the gospel as the fulfilling counter-narrative. (16)

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The unsurpassed resources of Christianity:

• Meaning in life that suffering can't take abroad, just can even deepen

• A satisfaction that isn't based on the circumstances

• The freedom that doesn't reduce customs and relationships to thin transactions

• And identity that isn't frail or based on our performance or the exclusion of others

• A way to both deal with guilt and forgive others without residuum bitterness or shame

• A way to face up non only the time to come, but expiry itself with poise and peace

• An caption for the senses of transcendent beauty and love nosotros frequently experience
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The Christian view requires sex to always be super-consensual — only for people ready to give their whole lives to each other. (36)
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The primary alternative to being a protestant Christian is now some grade of Western secularism. (39)
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Nosotros have to larn to grade Christians who are shaped more by the biblical narrative than by cultural narratives. (44)

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Nov 29, 2020 Marcás rated it it was amazing

Tim Keller has served up a brilliant, bracing short manifesto for Christian mission in a 'Post-Christian' civilisation.

At that place are many astute points virtually the appeals from populism and progressivism, married to precipitous criticisms in many of the correct places. Both get out God'southward formative and cardinal role out of the picture and create false identities without long term and historical memory.
Keller has done his research on where the people are today and information technology's often online, for several hours a day. So, h

Tim Keller has served up a brilliant, bracing short manifesto for Christian mission in a 'Post-Christian' civilization.

There are many acute points about the appeals from populism and progressivism, married to precipitous criticisms in many of the correct places. Both leave God'south determinative and central function out of the film and create false identities without long term and historical memory.
Keller has done his research on where the people are today and it'southward frequently online, for several hours a twenty-four hours. So, he suggests engaging with social media and the new technology, etc
Plus, he commends refocused ways of telling the truth of the Gospel that help direct the the calorie-free to smooth where it will awaken the slumbering secularist. Focusing on how information technology frees usa against the failures of 'autonomy', for example. Lots of keen advice for pastors, teachers and Christians of all kinds.

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This booklet was tough for me to rate. On the one hand there were some absolutely stunning statements made on the effectiveness of the church that should be circled and remembered. On the other mitt, information technology'southward tough - when knowing Keller'south practical posturing on race, social Justice, and politics - non to read subtle compromise and justification of such in much of the applied application. This volume could exist helpful but merely if read which circumspection.

Loved information technology. Short, with necessary background, and to the point. Can be read in tandem with Carl Trueman's book on 'cocky', as both of them rely on the same sources.
Applicable not just to cities in the north-due east of the US, but also to villages in the middle of Uk. Loved it. Short, with necessary background, and to the point. Can be read in tandem with Carl Trueman's volume on 'self', equally both of them rely on the same sources.
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Aug 25, 2020 Ivan rated it it was amazing

In this book nosotros accept Tim Keller at his most concise and incisive best.

Jan 20, 2022 Scott rated information technology really liked it

This was very good! I think I will probably mind to the podcast version of this content as well since I desire to appoint with information technology more securely.

May eleven, 2022 Kate Hacker rated it information technology was amazing

Superb. I particularly appreciated the clarity with which Keller calls the church to avert cultural captivity on the right or the left. His ideas virtually catechesis and counter-catechesis were actually thought-provoking.

April 21, 2021 Taylor rated information technology it was amazing

Freaking astonishing.

I could write 50 pages on why I similar this book, which is ironic because information technology'due south barely 50 pages long itself.

The Western (American, mostly) church building is split between those who know we're in a postal service-Christian globe and those who are desperately trying to maintain the idea that our nation is "Christian." Good ole Tim explains our electric current cultural situation, critiques trends of thinking and behavior that Christians tend toward, and proposes an alternative mode.

Some highlights:

He puts Weste

Freaking amazing.

I could write fifty pages on why I like this volume, which is ironic because it's barely 50 pages long itself.

The Western (American, by and large) church building is separate between those who know we're in a post-Christian earth and those who are desperately trying to maintain the thought that our nation is "Christian." Proficient ole Tim explains our electric current cultural situation, critiques trends of thinking and beliefs that Christians tend toward, and proposes an alternative manner.

Some highlights:

He puts Western Christianity into perspective by looking at global Christianity. We're for sure the minority. Nosotros're not special. We don't have all the theological answers. This is a footling wrist slap for feeling pride about our Christian heritage, just also an encouragement that Christianity lives on more than strongly than e'er.

He addresses the failure of the family and church to properly catechize their children and new believers. Traditional catechisms were written in response to previous cultures or even as counter-catechisms against Catholicism. While these are non up for contend, we need more than that speaks directly to our current late modernistic culture. The time spent in church (a couple hours a week, if you're devout lol) does not compare to the rest of the hours of the calendar week where you absorb secular culture and behavior. It won't cut information technology. What'due south necessary is deliberately catechizing and creating what he calls a "moral ecology" (aka classroom + community).

There's too a give-and-take of social vision for Christians which will make everyone a little mad because you'll either think it's too conservative or too liberal, which probably means it's pretty close to Biblical. Don't be politically captive! Gosh.

How to be common salt and lite? We look at clergy equally "the ones with the answers." Just estimate what – we've been so comfy in a semi-Christian culture for so long that the church hasn't engaged as much with the world as they should. Clergy are experts in theological issues, only can they help their lay folk navigate complex ethical issues in any career field? There needs to be collaboration here.

The gospel of grace leaves no room for either pride or fearfulness.

Okay wow there'south so much more. Go read the book! Sheesh.

**** as well his footnotes pointed me towards some other splendid resources! ever a win. read a volume, add xx-seven more than to my "to-read" shelf.

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Apr 06, 2020 Kiel rated information technology it was amazing

Keller has consolidated his most recent thoughts on engaging postal service Christian America anew with the gospel, this short booklet is a simple survey of a few key resource and a deep theological reflection on some very complexed problems. Cultural polarization has seeped deeply into the church, compromising its unity and its ability to attain mail Christian America in an uncompromised and compelling way. By contrast, though rife with intellectual and upstanding inconsistencies, tardily modern secular huma Keller has consolidated his most recent thoughts on engaging mail service Christian America afresh with the gospel, this short booklet is a simple survey of a few key resource and a deep theological reflection on some very complexed problems. Cultural polarization has seeped securely into the church, compromising its unity and its ability to achieve mail Christian America in an uncompromised and compelling way. By contrast, though rife with intellectual and upstanding inconsistencies, late modern secular humanism has a stranglehold on the formation and practice of our club. Keller finds a practical hope in collaborative independence between denominations and networks reaching across cultural divides, and divine hope in the history of unprecedented revivals and enkindling in Christianity and ultimately in Christ'due south promise from Matthew sixteen that his church would prevail despite groovy obstacles. lx pages of modern missiological nuance and practical theology. ...more than

This was a great book. I highly recommend it for all church members and leaders. Highly readable and easily explained to anyone who cares nearly the church building is going to fulfill its mission. This book makes a clear case for how to move forward.

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This was a cracking book. I highly recommend it for all church members and leaders. Highly readable and hands explained to anyone who cares about the church is going to fulfill its mission. This volume makes a articulate case for how to movement forward.

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Jan 11, 2022 John rated it it was amazing

Over the past 30 years, America has shifted toward a post-Christian lodge. in "How to Achieve the West Again," Timothy Keller asks the question, "how do we reach today and tomorrow'due south generations with the gospel?"

Keller explains that the secular project is "the showtime effort in history to build cohesive societies without a mutual set of shared moral and religious values." The battle today is between two ends of secularism: populism and progressivism. While they seem radically different, both igno

Over the past 30 years, America has shifted toward a mail-Christian society. in "How to Reach the Due west Again," Timothy Keller asks the question, "how exercise we reach today and tomorrow's generations with the gospel?"

Keller explains that the secular project is "the showtime effort in history to build cohesive societies without a common set of shared moral and religious values." The battle today is between ii ends of secularism: populism and progressivism. While they seem radically dissimilar, both ignore the transcendent God. "One of these views makes an idol out of private liberty, the other out of race and nation, blood and soil."

Keller urges usa that we must both connect and confront our culture as missionaries. Keller explains that our culture has built itself on the following shifting sand where "All values are relative, all relationships are transactional, all identities are fragile, and all (supposed) sources of fulfillment are disappointing." The function of the contemporary missionary is to assistance show the surrounding civilisation where its worldview cannot deliver what information technology offers.

Keller explains that the gospel will pause the bounds of cultural allegiances to political parties and mores. He points to Larry Hurtado'south excellent volume "Destroyer of the Gods" which chronicles how the early church lived lives that stood in opposition to the Roman civilization, and nonetheless the salubrious culture they formed was part of its powerful attraction.

Keller explains that a Christian counter-cultural missionary motion will be marked every bit:
1. Multi-racial and multi-ethnic;
2. Highly committed to caring for the poor and marginalized;
3. Non-retaliatory, marked past a delivery to forgiveness;
four. Strongly and practically against abortion and infanticide;
five. Revolutionizing the sex ethic.

Keller explains that these five commitments cut against both parties, with the first two beingness seen as typically more liberal in orientation and the final two being seen as typically more conservative. The gospel doesn't fit in our tidy contemporary western political ideologies.

Keller urges us to humility, patience, tolerance, and a lack of self-righteousness. In a world that catechizes us through immersive technologies, we volition need counter-catechesis. He explains that this counter-catechesis will need to unseat secular narratives about identity, liberty, happiness, science, morality, justice, and history. "We must call out the practices and habits of the centre within our society that pb not to human thriving but to personal and social deterioration."

I love Keller's vision for our missionary see with our civilisation. You will do good from it as well. I only wish it would have been double, triple, or quadruple the length! I wait forrad to more.

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This little ebook was pretty skilful! It'southward a prissy primer on evangelism in a mail-Christian world.

The biggest takeaway was the fact that we no longer live in a fourth dimension when people come asking questions that nosotros must answer, but rather we live in a time when we must ask questions of peoples' answers. I idea this was very insightful. The globe is giving them the wrong answers and we must approach people and question these answers.

He also gives a model of what the church must exist going forwards in order t

This little ebook was pretty good! It'southward a nice primer on evangelism in a mail-Christian earth.

The biggest takeaway was the fact that we no longer live in a time when people come asking questions that we must answer, just rather nosotros live in a time when we must ask questions of peoples' answers. I thought this was very insightful. The world is giving them the wrong answers and nosotros must arroyo people and question these answers.

He as well gives a model of what the church building must be going forrad in order to effectively reach a secular globe. He wrote that nosotros church must exist:
1. multi-indigenous
2. committed to the poor and to justice
3. a pioneer in civility, peace-making, and span-edifice
4. strongly pro-life
five. a sexual counter-civilisation

Another point that he made that I thought was actually interesting was the fact that something nonbelievers appreciate about Evangelical Christianity is that it is a organized religion of choice. Evangelical Christianity focuses on an independent choice that the person must make. It is not a religion that is passed downwardly through culture similar to Hinduism and some mainline Protestantism.

At the kickoff of this review, my rating was going to be 3 stars, but now that I take worked through some of the ideas in my caput a bit more I've convinced myself that this book is a iv star volume!

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Apr 28, 2020 Tung rated it information technology was amazing

I read everything past Keller because I know of few other people who combine gospel-centeredness, solid theology, and intellectual rigor as well every bit he does. In this curt book, Keller lays out the challenges the church has in evangelism in the electric current zeitgeist; simply he also provides the underlying principles needed to overcome those challenges. This is definitely not a how-to guide for church outreach programs – that is, Keller doesn't provide any specific tactical guidance on what programs to imp I read everything by Keller because I know of few other people who combine gospel-centeredness, solid theology, and intellectual rigor likewise as he does. In this short book, Keller lays out the challenges the church has in evangelism in the electric current zeitgeist; but he also provides the underlying principles needed to overcome those challenges. This is definitely non a how-to guide for church outreach programs – that is, Keller doesn't provide whatever specific tactical guidance on what programs to implement or how to preach a relevant sermon. Rather, Keller lists the overarching themes that accept characterized the church historically, and connects those characteristics to mod challenges. For example, the early church was known for its commitment to social justice causes — clearly something that resonates with modernistic cultural conversations around justice. For those who have read other essays by Keller or listened to some of his sermons, nearly of this book will seem repetitious equally a lot of the content has appeared throughout his preaching and instruction. This book does a expert chore of coalescing those thoughts into a concise framework. A must-read for the modern church, especially those in western countries. ...more

Tim Keller's short book starts past recognising two big challenges facing the church building. First, we mostly discover ourselves in a mail-Christian culture and secondly that the "digital culture" that dominates the west finer "forms" the average person betwixt ii-4 hours a mean solar day!
Keller wants the church building to consider how we can move away from politically drive polarisation, and how we can both show and live an attractive Christianity that stands up for the moral and upstanding vision of the Bible and is capab Tim Keller'due south short book starts by recognising two big challenges facing the church. Kickoff, we mostly find ourselves in a post-Christian civilization and secondly that the "digital civilization" that dominates the west effectively "forms" the average person between 2-4 hours a day!
Keller wants the church to consider how we tin can movement away from politically bulldoze polarisation, and how we can both show and live an bonny Christianity that stands upward for the moral and ethical vision of the Bible and is capable of critiquing the shakey foundations of secular life.
To a higher place all of this, the church needs to hold on to God's grace as the fundamental foundation of the Christian faith.
At a shade under 60 pages, this is less of a step-past-footstep manual for evangelism and more a clarion phone call for us to look at the big movie for reaching out, milkshake off some of our outdated presuppositions and footstep out boldly with a gospel that offers a better story for flourishing in our world and a hope for life beyond it. ...more

Later finishing reading Tim Keller's How To Reach The Due west Again I can't image being a church leader set with the job of discipling when the lack of coherence in the main doctrines of veritology, theology, and anthropology are coupled with onslaught of secular voices that catechize (train) to the contrary. Save this:

And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in sky and on globe has been given to me. Get therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Fa

After finishing reading Tim Keller's How To Reach The Due west Again I tin can't image being a church leader ready with the task of discipling when the lack of coherence in the primary doctrines of veritology, theology, and anthropology are coupled with onslaught of secular voices that catechize (railroad train) to the contrary. Salvage this:

And Jesus came and said to them, "All authorisation in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Become therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Male parent and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to notice all that I have allowable you. And behold, I am with you always, to the terminate of the historic period."
Matthew 28:18-20

"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father'due south good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 12:32

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April 21, 2022 Nathaniel rated information technology really liked it

"Up until 1900, there had never been a fast-growing revival in a non-Western pre-Christian country. So there was the Korean Presbyterian revival in 1907 and the East African Anglican revival in the 1930s. There was never a renewal movement of monasticism until at that place was. There was never a Reformation until in that location was. In that location never was anything like a Great Awakening until in that location was. There has never been a fast-growing revival in a mail-Christian, secular society. Just every corking new affair is unp "Up until 1900, there had never been a fast-growing revival in a non-Western pre-Christian country. Then there was the Korean Presbyterian revival in 1907 and the East African Anglican revival in the 1930s. There was never a renewal movement of monasticism until at that place was. There was never a Reformation until there was. There never was annihilation like a Neat Awakening until in that location was. There has never been a fast-growing revival in a post-Christian, secular society. But every bully new thing is unprecedented—until it happens. Jesus said, 'I will build my church, and the gates of hell volition not prevail against it' (Matthew xvi:18). There's no reason to believe this promise has an expiration date" (p. 57).

^^^Something I needed to hear!

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Apr 09, 2022 Horace rated information technology it was amazing

Keller argues that for the most part Christendom is behind us in the United States, and then nosotros live in a post-Christian globe. What then does it look like to be a missionary in this culture? Keller identifies six basic elements to having a missionary come across with Western civilization:

1-Christian loftier theory- analyzing the culture with the gospel
2-A truly post-Christendom evangelistic dynamic
3-A category-defying social vision
4-Counter-catechesis for a digital age
5-True-blue Christian presence in publ

Keller argues that for the near part Christendom is behind the states in the United States, and and so we live in a post-Christian earth. What so does it look like to exist a missionary in this culture? Keller identifies six bones elements to having a missionary encounter with Western culture:

1-Christian high theory- analyzing the civilization with the gospel
2-A truly mail service-Christendom evangelistic dynamic
three-A category-defying social vision
4-Counter-catechesis for a digital historic period
5-Faithful Christian presence in public spheres
6-Grace to the signal

This is a short book and well worth reading and considering.

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Apr 21, 2021 Joshua Pegram rated it actually liked it

Keller is insightful in his cultural assay, as usual. Very edifying and helpful in diagnosing some aspects of Western culture that churches are non well-equipped to address.

However, there are times when his opinion seems to veer toward overstatement (e.g., when addressing the importance of cities today ... which admittedly is Keller's thing). The work also seems to lack clarity regarding repentance (east.k., the word on sexual ethics and welcoming all people (good!) merely not addressing the

Keller is insightful in his cultural analysis, as usual. Very edifying and helpful in diagnosing some aspects of Western civilisation that churches are not well-equipped to accost.

However, in that location are times when his opinion seems to veer toward overstatement (e.g., when addressing the importance of cities today ... which admittedly is Keller'south thing). The work also seems to lack clarity regarding repentance (e.g., the give-and-take on sexual ethics and welcoming all people (good!) but not addressing the importance of confronting underlying sin patterns).

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Jun xxx, 2021 Greg Savage rated it it was amazing

Every church must consider how to respond to the anti-Christian rhetoric in America. Keller gives united states of america a short and concise look at the importance of a missionary encounter for the church. We must not withdraw, impose our will, or attempt to be relevant. Instead, we must be salt and light; nosotros must take up the crusade of Christ and live and build relationships and bridges with our lost neighbors and friends. It's a brusk read and will not take long but very much worth your fourth dimension. Every church must consider how to respond to the anti-Christian rhetoric in America. Keller gives us a short and concise expect at the importance of a missionary encounter for the church. Nosotros must not withdraw, impose our volition, or try to be relevant. Instead, we must be salt and light; nosotros must have up the cause of Christ and live and build relationships and bridges with our lost neighbors and friends. It's a short read and volition non accept long but very much worth your fourth dimension. ...more

Well worth the fourth dimension it will take you to stop this brief booklet, Keller writes with his usual clarity and perceptiveness. The missionary tools information technology will take to engage Western civilisation are properly highlighted here, though one would certainly non be thought overly disquisitional for beingness left wishing for more than by the fourth dimension the terminal page is turned.

May 04, 2021 Eli rated it liked it

Much nutrient for idea. However, Keller primarily focuses on the problems and possibilities of urban ministry, making this fiddling book quite lopsided.

I appreciated his call for counter-catechesis, for showing that the prevailing dogmas of our contemporaries are faux and that whatever truth might be contained in them can only find their true fulfillment in Christ.

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Timothy Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he started in 1989 with his wife, Kathy, and 3 young sons. For over xx years he has led a diverse congregation of young professionals that has grown to a weekly attendance of over five,000.

He is also Chairman of Redeem

Librarian Note: At that place is more than than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Timothy Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he started in 1989 with his wife, Kathy, and three young sons. For over xx years he has led a diverse congregation of young professionals that has grown to a weekly omnipresence of over five,000.

He is too Chairman of Redeemer City to City, which starts new churches in New York and other global cities, and publishes books and resource for organized religion in an urban culture. In over x years they have helped to launch over 250 churches in 48 cities. More recently, Dr. Keller's books, including the New York Times bestselling The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, have sold over 1 million copies and been translated into 15 languages.

Christianity Today has said, "50 years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians."

Dr. Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell Academy, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served as the pastor of West Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, Virginia, Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and Director of Mercy Ministries for the Presbyterian Church in America.

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