Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity

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Overview

In today's culture of modernism, Christianity is an afterthought. Explore how the majesty and radical reality of God’s amazing grace has been rendered impotent in America. Then begin to tear down the cultural barriers to both the acceptance of the gospel and the mission of the church in America.

A study guide, available at NavPress.com, will help you dig deeper into this important message.

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President of the Center for Christ and Culture in Dallas, Craven, a business executive turned minister, is long on passion but late to the discussion on postmodernism, which he sees as a socially corrosive philosophy nonetheless declining in influence. He notes, however, that the philosophy accepts that we cannot know all things and thus allows us to rediscover humility. He examines issues shaping culture today and argues that Christianity has become irrelevant in shaping society. He then seeks to promote Christian influence by engaging culture with what the Bible says about consumerism, marriage, homosexuality, spirituality, feminism. He concedes, for example, that some Christians have suppressed human rights in the name of religion, but "the Christian God is actually the foremost advocate of equality between the sexes." Conservative readers will find a champion for not only resisting cultural shifts but actually reshaping culture with a Christian worldview, but other readers may question such sweeping assertions as "prior to the sixties, America's moral consensus was largely derived from distinctly Christian principles and values-in essence a Christian worldview." (Jan. 30)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781600063626
Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/30/2009
Pages: 224
Series: The Navigators Reference Library
Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 11.11 (d)

Meet the Author

S. Michael Craven is the president of the Center for Christ & Culture located in Dallas, Texas, where he studies, writes, and lectures on the relevant intersection of theology, philosophy, and culture. A leading cultural apologist, he offers a rational biblical response to the various cultural forces that seek to reshape the philosophical consensus in America.

Craven is the author of Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity (NavPress, 2009); has been a featured speaker at national conferences, universities, and seminaries; and appeared on Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and other national television and radio programs. His popular commentaries are syndicated on Crosswalk.com, Christianity.com, and ChristianPost.com.

Craven is an occasional guest host of the nationally syndicated radio program Point of View; he also serves as an adjunct professor at Western Seminary in San Jose, California, teaching a course of his own design, “How to Maximize the Church’s Redemptive Influence.” He also serves as a Senior Fellow of Cultural and Family Issues at the Center for Cultural Leadership in Santa Cruz, California, and served as the moderator of the Fellowship of Mere Christianity

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Posted February 16, 2009

Thought Provoking

Uncompromised Faith should create an epiphany within the North American church. Mr. Craven outlines ways that the culture has influenced the church to the point of diluting the power, hope and relevance of the gospel. He then takes on several controversal issues of the day and shows the way for the church to engage society in a winsome and biblically sound manner. Christians and churches that follow this lead will find lives and communities transformed.

I highly recommend this book for personal consumption as well as for small group study.

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How Christians can confront our culture

In just 200 very readable pages Mr. Craven describes how our culture has watered down the Christian faith. He explains how we believers can bring our faith to unbelievers by showing them how it lines up with reality. He says that by better understanding how our culture has degenerated so much in recent decades we can better engage in missional discussions and bring glory to the King. He gives an amazing, brief overview of how Americans became so enamored with sexuality, pornography and sex education. Other chapters describe the rise of the normality of homosexuality and feminism.
This book will equip you to speak to Christians in your own church body who do not yet have a fully Biblical worldview. It will help you speak to your family members, too. You will learn the origins and realilty of the sexual revolution, for instance, and see the results, or the truth of it: STDs and AIDs on the rise, pornography industry increasing, high rate of pregnant teens, etc. Then you can explain God's view of sex and how these problems would not exist if we followed his way. It is this missional type of discussion that we need to have both inside and outside the church if we are to stand for the faith.
Mr. Craven uses plenty of Biblical references to support the book. You will be fascinated and challenged with "Uncompromised Faith."
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