Onward by Russell D Moore

Onward by Russell D Moore

Christianity Today Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year in 2016.

Keep Christianity Strange.

As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it can be good news for the church. What's needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place.

We seek the kingdom of God, before everything else. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonize opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let's do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down.

The signs of the times tell us we are in for days our parents and grandparents never knew. But that's no call for panic or surrender or outrage. Jesus is alive. Let's act like it. Let's follow him, onward to the future.

Russell Moore is the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the country's biggest Protestant denomination. He was described as vigorous, cheery, and ferociously articulate by the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including Adopted for Life: Christian Families and Churches Making Adoption a Priority. He and his wife Maria have five sons together.

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ISBN 13	9781433686177
ISBN 10	1433686171
Title	Onward
Author	Russell D Moore
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Broadman & Holman Publishers
Year published	2015-08-01
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Book of the Year) 2016, Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Politics) 2016
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