The Way Back
How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back
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"The Way Back is the way forward." — Erwin Raphael McManus, Founder of Mosaic, and Author, The Last Arrow
On a dusty hilltop, Jesus once kickstarted His church with a ragtag group of fishermen who called themselves "The Way." Truth be told, the builders of Christianity were a bunch of nobodies. Like us, they were powerless and flawed and sometimes petty. But they were committed. They were all-in. Within a remarkably short time, The Way became the world's most influential religious faith — a force in culture, politics, literature, science, philanthropy, and the arts. Against impossible odds, that group of nobodies astonished the world.
Two thousand years later — by any measure — Christianity is retreating on all fronts. The Way has lost its way.
In The Way Back, media and marketing experts Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock take a hard look at Christians today and reveal that we, as a salesforce, have lost our faith in our product. Where's the passion, the excitement, and the commitment that two thousand years ago made such improbable and staggering growth possible?
The Way Back will inspire and equip you to learn from that wonderful group of nobodies, so that you too can astonish the world once more.
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Release date
February 6, 2018 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781683971672
- File size: 891 KB
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- ISBN: 9781683971672
- File size: 891 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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December 11, 2017
Filmmaker Cooke and producer Bock provide a glimpse behind the curtain of the modern Christian church in this cursory but passionately argued book. With the intention of bolstering belief in Christians, the authors offer a path to spiritual thriving through Christ in a world that can be hostile to belief. They argue that the Christian world has created a god in its own image, abandoning the biblical image of God creating man in his image, and that everyone needs to return to the original teachings of Christ. The result of this distortion has led to the creation of “That Other God,” they write, and the consequences are deep and potentially fatal to believers and society as a whole. Cooke and Bock, wielding an effective rhetorical scalpel, call for a combination of extreme commitment to living out one’s Christian affirmation with what they term a “radical humility” (professing unencumbered love, even toward those who express hatred). This serious work, easily understood by clergy and laity alike, provides a timely wake-up call for the modern church. Agent: Rachelle Gardner, Books and Such.
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