Download e-book for iPad: Endangered Gospel: How Fixing the World is Killing the by John C. Nugent

for hundreds of years, Christians sought to rescue humans from this international. this day, we are attempting to repair it. whereas this shift is useful in many ways, in alternative ways it may be really dangerous.

Endangered Gospel flips the script in this dialog via stressing the middle gospel fact that instead of ushering in a brand new global via social activism, God's humans already are the hot international in Christ. it isn't our activity to make this global a greater position, yet to be the higher position God has already made during this global. that is solid news!

If we allow pass of this fact, we develop into servants of the realm and never God. We additionally lose the nice pleasure and plentiful lifestyles that God meant us to have in neighborhood. Jesus himself stated that the realm will recognize we're Christians through our love for one another--not the fervor of our activism.

Social motion makes us suppose proper and alive, however it cannot be the guts of our new existence in Christ. Endangered Gospel explores how we'd enthusiastically include the social dimensions of the gospel with no divorcing them from the church or forcing them at the world.

Read this publication, listen the gospel tale afresh, and include the good news of God's kingdom!

"Endangered Gospel is whilst a prophetic critique of a church that has misplaced its method in addition to a cautious, sufferer, available caricature of what a kingdom-shaped church is designed to appear like. John Nugent is a cautious student, a deep philosopher, a really appropriate critic, and a devoted churchman, and during this e-book he finds once more why he's changing into a number one Anabaptist voice in terms of church and society. i've got learn only a few books with which I agreed as a lot as Endangered Gospel."
--Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of latest testomony, Northern Seminary

"In an period the place an increasing number of Christians desperately lengthy to make the area a greater position, John Nugent dares to query those well-meaning wants through not easy us to get well our specified and weird calling because the church: to serve the area via embodying and bearing witness to God's higher position, the in-breaking nation of God."
--Philip D. Kenneson, Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Milligan university; writer, Life at the Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community

John Nugent is Professor of previous testomony at nice Lakes Christian collage. he's the writer of The Politics of Yahweh (2011), editor of Radical Ecumenicity (2010) and The finish of Sacrifice(2011), and coeditor of the three-volume Yoder for Everyone sequence (2012-14).