Christians in the Age of Outrage
by Ed Stetzer | Book Summary
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Author: Ed Stetzer
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Christians are both the recipients of and contributors to the outrage growing in our culture. In order for Christians to live faithfully in the world, believers must understand what is fueling the outrage and how to engage it. Retreat and inaction are not biblical options for the faithful, so Christians must think deeply on how to cut through the noise of the anger and meet a lost world with compassion and truth. It is important that "Christians move from contributing to the age of outrage to effectively engaging it with the gospel" (p. xvii). In order for this to happen, Christians must shape their worldview by the gospel, not give in to rage, and see the world with compassion, grace, empathy, and humility. |
Ed Stetzer is a professor and dean at Wheaton College and is the executive director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Stetzer has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches as well as trained pastors and church planters globally. He is the regional director for Lausanne North America.
Stetzer is a contributing editor for Christianity Today and is the founding editor of The Gospel Project curriculum. He is the author of others works such as Subversive Kingdom: Becoming agents of Gospel Transformation, Spiritual Warfare & Missions, Planting Missional Churches, Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Be a Missionary in Your Community, and many others.
Christians in the Age of Outrage
by Ed Stetzer
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | Ed Stetzer |
| Publisher | Tyndale Momentum |
| Date | 2018 |
| Pages | 291 |
Overview:
Why is everyone angry? Increasingly in our world, everyone is upset about everything. People from all points along the political and social spectrums are being attacked by online mobs. We live in an age of outrage.
Christians are both the recipients of and contributors to the outrage growing in our culture. In order for Christians to live faithfully in the world, believers must understand what is fueling the outrage and how to engage it.
Retreat and inaction are not biblical options for the faithful, so Christians must think deeply on how to cut through the noise of the anger and meet a lost world with compassion and truth. It is important that "Christians move from contributing to the age of outrage to effectively engaging it with the gospel" (p. xvii).
In order for this to happen, Christians must shape their worldview by the gospel, not give in to rage, and see the world with compassion, grace, empathy, and humility.
Ed Stetzer is a professor and dean at Wheaton College and is the executive director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Stetzer has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches as well as trained pastors and church planters globally. He is the regional director for Lausanne North America.
Stetzer is a contributing editor for Christianity Today and is the founding editor of The Gospel Project curriculum. He is the author of others works such as Subversive Kingdom: Becoming agents of Gospel Transformation, Spiritual Warfare & Missions, Planting Missional Churches, Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Be a Missionary in Your Community, and many others.