When Christians Get it Wrong
by Adam Hamilton
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Pub Date Aug 02 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Abingdon Press | United Methodist Publishing House
Description
More and more young adults have opted out of Christianity and the church. The reason? Christians.
When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they often name certain attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging others, condemning people of other faiths, rejecting science, injecting politics into faith, and being anti-homosexual. With his familiar style, Adam Hamilton tackles these issues and addresses the how’s and why’s of Christians getting it right when it comes to being Christ in the world.
Those who read When Christians Get It Wrong will gain a different way of understanding the issues that keep people away from Christianity and keep Christians from living a more compelling faith. Because, honestly, if we don’t start getting it right, we may lose an entire generation.
Advance Praise
“If there was one pastor in the United States to whom I'd go for pastoral wisdom on the issues that divide us and that need pastoral words of warning and compassion, it is Adam Hamilton. Even when one does not agree with each of his proposals, one will come away refreshed, enlightened, and determined to ‘get it right.’ Because we sometimes ‘get it wrong,’ we learn that the only way to get it right is the way of humility, confession, compassion, and renewed commitment to a deeper integrity.” - Scot McKnight, author of A Community Called Atonement
“My church has no better interpreter of the Christian faith for the present age than Adam Hamilton. In this book he takes on the questions that few of us dare to tackle, doing so with Hamiltonian creativity, vitality, and biblical fidelity. God has given Adam great gifts for Christian communication. He reframes the issues in such a way that he gives the church an opportunity to refocus and redefine and to move off dead center and move more closely to Jesus. I’ve deeply appreciated all of Adam’s books; I love this one!”
Will Willimon, author of Why Jesus?
“Who helps you think? Adam Hamilton pushes my thinking. I consider him a trustworthy friend. When he speaks, I listen. When he writes, I read. If you need some help thinking seriously about some of the more difficult issues of our day, read this book.”
Mark Beeson, Senior Pastor of Granger Community Church
“Three groups of people especially need to read this clear, well-written, to-the-point, and warm-hearted book from one of America's wisest pastors. First, people who are about to leave the Christian faith–or who can't quite accept it–will enjoy it because “the big five” obstacles to faith are honestly named and wisely responded to in these pages. Second, parents and friends of these people should read it because they can learn wiser and better ways of responding to people they love. And pastors, youth workers, and church leaders could learn from Adam Hamilton a whole new way of leading and teaching. Inspired by Adam's example, they could open the door for thousands of people–young adults and older as well–who are being turned away from God every week by Christians who get it wrong.”
Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781426709142 |
| PRICE | 14.00 |
| PAGES | 144 |
