Prophetic Untimeliness
A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance
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Word Count
32,000 words, Guess
Page Count
128 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7845351M
- ISBN-139780801012600
- ISBN-100801012600
- OCLC Control Number52047479
- OCLC Control Numberpropheticuntimel0000guin_d9f7
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003006965
- LibraryThing156020
- Goodreads1975633
Classifications
- LCCBV4501.3 .G85 2003
Description
The buzz among evangelicals today is about relevance and reinvention, about new ways of "doing church" through revising, innovating, borrowing, mixing, and experimenting. Yet, says Os Guinness, in our uncritical pursuit of relevance, Christians have actually become irrelevant. By our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more in line with the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and significance. Prophetic Untimeliness addresses this issue by giving practical, constructive solutions for living with integrity in the midst of modern pressures. Guinness explores what it means to be both faithful and relevant, and how to be truly relevant without being trivial or trendy. Readers will be challenged to develop "resistance thinking," an approach inspired by C. S. Lewis that balances the uncomfortable truths of the gospel with the pursuit of relevance. Only by being true to Christ and living with integrity and wisdom will we meet the needs of a world that is hungry for some really good news. - Google Books.
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