The Next Christians

The Next Christians:
The Good News About the End of Christian America
By Gabe Lyons (Doubleday)
A 2011 Outreach Resource of the Year

“For the next Christians, the ought is the prism through which they see their mission. This includes sharing the Gospel so that men and women might enter into relationship with God, but it also goes beyond that. In the good garden, there was no sickness or evil or pain. So these Christians set out to identify hurts, sickness, darkness and evil, and then show up as a force of help, healing and goodness. They believe that they’ve been called to restore things to the way God intended them.” —Gabe Lyons, from the book

An excerpt from The Next Christians

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Fight Church: A Fighting Chance

“Here was a people group that wasn’t being served by any form of chaplaincy like many major sports have,” says Pastor Joshua Boyd, of the local MMA community. “And they needed care just like anyone else.”

Perfectly Imperfect Churches

Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.

Nigerian Church Promotes a Deeper Christian Life

A. Larry Ross, who traveled the world for nearly 34 years as personal media spokesman for evangelist Billy Graham, says the new epicenter for evangelism is the Global South and Nigerian evangelist William Kumuyi as the pastor of “the largest church of which most American Christians have never heard.”