Roaring Lambs [Paperback]

Robert Briner (Author)

Book Description

Series: Youth Specialties | Publication Date: September 1, 2000

How do 16-year-olds live out their Christian faith in class? Flipping burgers? In youth group?

By being roaring lambs, that’s how.

Roaring lambs? They’re Christians--your high school students--who leave the Christian ghetto and take the salt of the gospel with them into mainstream culture.

This six-session curriculum shows students how to decompartmentalize their faith--to intentionally bring their faith out of the youth room and let it saturate all aspects of their lives--schools, jobs, friends, romance, home, and more--to be a Christ-follower, rather than merely do Christ-things. With topics like this:

Bleeding Hearts in Bleating Sheep. Unless your love of God is transformed into outward behavior, you’re only a bleating sheep instead of a roaring lamb.

Welcome to the Ghetto. Are you in a Christian-programmed culture--a Christian ghetto? Then tear down the walls so you can see the world and the world can see you.

Welcome to the World. You’re not in Kansas anymore. Here’s the difference between being in the world and being of the world.

The Salt of the Earth. In praise of a high-sodium diet. You’re the flavoring and preservative of the world!

Careers 101. Will the real Christians please stand up? Pastors and missionaries are not the only ones who serve God.

The curriculum includes a music CD (produced by Squint Entertainment) of all-new songs from top CCM artists, including Jars of Clay . . . Sixpence None the Richer . . . Burlap to Cashmere . . . Delirious . . . Ashley Cleveland . . . Steven Curtis Chapman . . . Michael W. Smith . . . Ladysmith Black Mambazo . . . Over the Rhine . . . and more.

For youth workers, Sunday school teachers, small-group leaders, camp counselors, DREs, pastors--anyone who wants to help teenage Christians take their faith out of the youth room and into the world. And become roaring lambs.

Inspired by the Bob Briner best-seller Roaring Lambs

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Bob Briner is the president of ProServ Television and the author of The Management Methods of Jesus, Roaring Lambs and Lambs Among Wolves. He has won the coveted Emmy Award for his television work and is one of the leaders in sports marketing and television. Briner and his wife live in Greenville, Illinois. They are the parents of three adult children --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

How do 16-year-olds live out their Christian faith in class? Flipping burgers? In youth group?

By being roaring lambs, that’s how.

Roaring lambs? They’re Christians--your high school students--who leave the Christian ghetto and take the salt of the gospel with them into mainstream culture.

This six-session curriculum shows students how to decompartmentalize their faith--to intentionally bring their faith out of the youth room and let it saturate all aspects of their lives--schools, jobs, friends, romance, home, and more--to be a Christ-follower, rather than merely do Christ-things. With topics like this:

Bleeding Hearts in Bleating Sheep. Unless your love of God is transformed into outward behavior, you’re only a bleating sheep instead of a roaring lamb.

Welcome to the Ghetto. Are you in a Christian-programmed culture--a Christian ghetto? Then tear down the walls so you can see the world and the world can see you.

Welcome to the World. You’re not in Kansas anymore. Here’s the difference between being in the world and being of the world.

The Salt of the Earth. In praise of a high-sodium diet. You’re the flavoring and preservative of the world!

Careers 101. Will the real Christians please stand up? Pastors and missionaries are not the only ones who serve God.

The curriculum includes a music CD (produced by Squint Entertainment) of all-new songs from top CCM artists, including Jars of Clay . . . Sixpence None the Richer . . . Burlap to Cashmere . . . Delirious . . . Ashley Cleveland . . . Steven Curtis Chapman . . . Michael W. Smith . . . Ladysmith Black Mambazo . . . Over the Rhine . . . and more.

For youth workers, Sunday school teachers, small-group leaders, camp counselors, DREs, pastors--anyone who wants to help teenage Christians take their faith out of the youth room and into the world. And become roaring lambs.

Inspired by the Bob Briner best-seller Roaring Lambs

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310234190
• ISBN-13: 978-0310234197
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,011,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous book on faith and the arts, July 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Roaring Lambs: A Gentle Plan to Radically Change Your World (Paperback)

Christians seem so often to create their own sub-culture of culture--Christian music, Christian books, etc. Briner exhorts people of faith to produce their very best work to the glory of God, but in the mainstream where everyone can be impacted. As a Christian and an artist who tries (sometimes with more success than others) to combine serving God and creating art, this book really inspired me to keep striving to do and be my best.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Attention all musicians, actors, writers, artists, etc..., July 25, 2000

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Brandt - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roaring Lambs: A Gentle Plan to Radically Change Your World (Paperback)

I have never found a more helpful book than Roaring Lambs in providing a purpose for a Christian who wants to impact the world for Christ. Briner writes to guide and encourage Christian artists who want to impact their contemporaries with God honoring music, theater, art, movies, etc. BUT, he emphasizes sharing your gifts with the world. Do not stay in the cozy, protective Christian sub-culture, but let your peers admire your skill. Venture into your cities and share your performances and creations. Offer an alternative to the world with the gifts God has given you.

If you want a book that adds fire to the protests, boycotts, and score keeping that some Christians partake in.... THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU! This book will show you were Christians have dropped the ball in areas of literature, movies, TV, journalism, etc. AND give you great ideas to change these mediums by asking you to get involved and provide God honoring alternatives.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fulfilling the Great Commission in contemporary America, July 14, 2001

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NotATameLion (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roaring Lambs: A Gentle Plan to Radically Change Your World (Paperback)

"And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.''" (Matthew 28:18-20)

The late Bob Briner's "Roaring Lambs" is a book that should be necessary reading for any Christian seeking to fulfill the Great Commission in contemporary America.

"Roaring Lambs" focuses on our calling to fulfill the Lord's commission; specifically by being salt and light in our culture. Briner firmly but lovingly condemns the "ghetto" that many Christians have created for themselves by withdrawing into their own subculture. He states:

"We feel we are making a difference because we are so important to ourselves. We have created a phenomenal subculture with our own media, entertainment, educational system, and political hierarchy so that we have a sense that we're doing a lot. But what we've really done is create a ghetto that is easily dismissed by the rest of society."

Briner sums up the problem this way: "Culturally, we are lambs. Meek, lowly, easily dismissed cuddly creatures that are fun to watch but never a threat to the status quo."

Thankfully, Briner does not argue that we should mindlessly lob grenades at society from within the safety of the ghetto's walls--far too many do that already. Instead, Briner states that we must engage in the discourse of our culture. Christians must involve themselves in the culture shaping arenas of art, entertainment, the media and education. In short:

"It is time for the lambs to roar."

The rest of the book is composed of chapters examining each culture shaping field. Briner, who himself worked in the media as a producer, offers practical suggestions for people wishing to make an impact in these areas.

Having come to Christ as an adult, I personally was not raised in the ghetto Briner speaks of. Yet...I know a good deal of people who were; as well as a few who still live there. This book is a great wake up call for such people. It is liberating for them and inspiring for all who long to see God's Kingdom flourish.

Briner did all Christians a service by writing this book. It is a call to action from within the Church that leads us to go beyond the Church and into a world which is ripe for harvest.

I highly recommend "Roaring Lambs." If you finish reading "Roaring Lambs," and want more practical advice and insights on positive ways to shape culture, you can find them in Dick Staub's "Too Pagan, Too Christian." Both are excellent books and work hand in hand together.