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Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel Hardcover – August 1, 2015

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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.

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Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The Wall Street Journal called him "vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate." He is the author of several books, including Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches. He and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons.

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Bob Pamplin, Former Boy Scout

Honorable Goal - Wrong Approach

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019

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Dr. Moore neglects to realize that the influence of Christianity on the culture brings people closer to the gospel, not further away from it. He mistakenly argues that the past influence of Christianity on American culture hindered the mission of the church. He contends that people mistook Christian values for the gospel itself, which prevented them from experiencing true religion.

True, not everyone who accepts a cultural form of Christianity makes a decision to repent and believe in Jesus. However, the people who once accepted Christianity as a cultural given were much closer to genuine conversion than the post-modern people growing up today. Today’s young adults have no concept of objective truth or moral absolutes. As a result, they have a deep skepticism of the gospel, and it is very difficult to convert them.

I thank God that a Christian culture paved the way for the “Jesus Movement” of the 1970’s. Scores of my friends devoted their lives to Christ due to a lingering cultural belief that morals matter, and that Jesus holds the answer to our shortcomings.

Sadly, we are not likely to see another spiritual awakening any time soon in this country. We have lost a generation of young people as we have lost the culture. Therefore, let us reject Dr. Moore’s denial of America’s exceptional Christian past. Let us, instead, pray that the seeds of our founders will find renewed growth, that our culture will return to Christian values, and that many will know Jesus as a result.

Dr. Moore downplays the good work of Christians in government -- people like Wilberforce and the American abolitionists who led the world in ending slavery, and like Reverend King who worked through government to end segregation. He largely ignores the influence of the Puritans in England and the New World, who encouraged republican government and the rule of law and opposed the "divine right of kings."

Dr. Moore doesn't understand that the freedoms and prosperity we enjoy today are the result of five principles in our government. 1) Recognition of a Divine Creator 2) Recognition that inalienable rights come from God 3) Recognition that government exists to protect inalienable rights. 4) There is a fixed moral law 5) Government is by the consent of the governed. The United States of America is the only country in the history of the World that has successfully employed these principles and that is what makes us exceptional. Our form of government is not Christianity, but God blesses our nation because these godly principles are at her core.

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Lily Anderson

Spot-On for the American Christian today

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016

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This timely book really hits the questions and issues I have been pondering, rethinking, and stumbling over. As a very-late gen-X'er, Third Culture Kid, and follower of Christ, I don't find that the neat labels of American politics, society, or even the American church tend to fit. While some of my parents' generation bemoan America's changing face from a "Christian nation" to a failed promised land, I have found myself asking how a whole country can really be saved since Christ died for sinners, not nation-states, and thinking that perhaps people who aren't living as followers of Christ will be more open to hearing about Him if they don't default-identify as Christians en masse to begin with. Moore points out that "We are Americans best, when we are not Americans first," and sets about exploring the qualities and values that make up the Kingdom of God, of which we (the church) are an advance outpost. He points out how the church and the state don't do well when they try to take over each other's functions - for instance, can we really expect un-redeemed governments to write prayers for our schools, addressing God without going through Christ? Christian values don't fit neatly into any one party's political platform, and may not even give us clear answers on many issues (gun control, for example?), but they do give a clear view of how we live must together and engage the non-believing world in which we live. Each chapter (save one, in my opinion) gives clear, scriptural truth and applies it to the current reality the church faces. I have been looking back through all my Kindle highlights and it's a huge chunk of all my highlights! I believe I will be revisiting those segments, and the whole book, for quite a while.

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Sandra Van Dyk

Taken By Surprise

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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When I opened this book on Amazon, I did so somewhat skeptically, but curious. I expected thick Religious Right sauced with Bible Belt. That's not what I got! Moore had me on the first two pages. There is a really good writer and thinker here who is not afraid to tell the truth - and does so from one end to the other. In 2 minutes I had it on my iPad and started reading. I literally could not put this book down until I finished it. It is a prophetic word - in the fullest sense - to the contemporary evangelical church. The keen edge of Moore's fidelity to the heart of the Christian gospel cuts through the dross of much of the contemporary church and bares a clear way forward. This book is head and shoulders above the usual Christian bookstore fare. it's the first book I have found that offers hope to a languishing church to become the true people of God in a difficult time. On top of that, it is so well written and clearly developed that even the hard truth makes its way right to your soul. Moore is challenging, provocative, inspiring. This book is a game-changer.

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Steven Paterson

Onward to America

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2019

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This is a good book. In some ways it's worth way more than 3 stars I've given it. In it's proper context of American Christianity it's a four or five star book. Having spent sometime in the US I can see it's relevance there, it's pinpoint accuracy; indeed it convicts and challenges that culture.
However, out with the US Christian culture it's somewhat more limited. If I were to qualify this, I'd say 90% American and 20% globally applicable (obviously there is some crossover). There are good principles to take from each chapter, and towards the end of the book is a real encouraging highlight that applies to all western Christianity.
So if you're American 4.5 *
If you're elsewhere 3*

rhona tolchard

Thoughtful, detailed, and a welcome change from much American evangelical rhetoric.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2020

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This book probably comes close to charting the personal history of many lifelong evangelicals, currently bewildered and seemingly without a coherent public response to much of what is happening in their country. It offers a cautious way forward that avoids the money-rich, social justice poverty of much American evangelicalism without throwing out the baby with the bath-water and while still remaining true to the roots of the faith.

Funny in places, thoughtful, well-researched, this book offers hope without superficiality and a road ahead that avoids the extremes of the current zeitgeist. One to read.

Joy Fowler

I couldn't put it down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2018

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Insightful, biblical, thought provoking,hard hitting, optimistic in a realistic kind of way. I would definitely recommend.relevant not just for the American church.

Hanniel

Eine allgemeinverständlich gehaltene Kulturtheologie für die nächste Generation

Reviewed in Germany on April 5, 2016

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Dieses Buch ist eine allgemeinverständlich gehaltene Kulturtheologie. Russell Moore (*1971) ist Präsident der Kommission für Ethik und Religionsfreiheit der Südlichen Baptisten (Southern Baptists). Das heisst, er hat in diesem Buch Heimspiel. Er verfolgt eine doppelte Absicht: Einerseits ringt er um die Position der christlichen Gemeinde inmitten dieser Welt. Dieses Ringen geschieht im Wissen um die bewegten Jahrzehnte der religiösen Rechten in den USA, den eigenen Erfahrungen als Pastor im sogenannten „Bible Belt“ und der Überzeugung, dass sich die Christen in den USA neu positionieren müssen. Moore gelingt es, ohne Polemik diese Gratwanderung zu gehen. Ehrlich und wie es sich für einen US-Amerikaner gehört anekdotenreich wandert er durch das weite inhaltliche Feld. Das Leseerlebnis ist ein gemischtes: Trotz dem locker vorgetragenen Stil musste ich meine Sinne beieinander halten, um inhaltlich zu folgen. Der mäandrierende, eher vortragsnahe Stil ist zum Glück von vielen biblischen Belegstellen und passenden, kurzen Bemerkungen versehen. Diese halten das Buch inhaltlich beisammen, ja sie bilden das eigentliche Gerüst.

Natürlich ist das Buch aus US-amerikanischer Sicht für die USA geschrieben worden. Es mag uns Europäer etwas befremden, dass da ein Autor darüber diskutiert, ob sein Land denn nun ein „christliches” oder eben nicht mehr christliches Land sei. Er kommt zum Schluss, dass die kulturelle Erschütterung ein hoffnungsvolles Anzeichen sei: Gott rette die amerikanische Christenheit vor sich selbst. „Die Zukunft des christlichen sozialen Zeugnisses kann das Evangelium nicht voraussetzen, sondern muss es ausdrücklich und passend artikulieren.“ (95) Moore vermeidet geflissentlich Kulturpessimismus, die Zukunft der Kirche sei hell (3) – dies nicht wegen den Christen, sondern wegen dem zu erwartenden Königreich von Jesus, das in diese Welt einbrechen wird. „Wir marschieren vorwärts (hier die Anspielung auf den Titel), auf eine andere Art der Herrschaft zu.“ (9) Wer nicht heilsgeschichtlich, also aus der Perspektive von Gottes Geschichte von Schöpfung, Sündenfall, Erlösung und Vollendung denkt, gelangt zu ganz anderen persönlichen und sozialen Schlussfolgerungen. „Unsere Berufung kann man als engagierte Fremdheit beschreiben.“ (8) Es geht also um ein beherztes Engagement innerhalb dieser Welt ohne das Evangelium zu verlieren (Untertitel: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel). Uns steht die Rolle einer prophetischen Minderheit zu – für Europa zugegebenermassen einer verschwindend kleinen Minderheit, die mutig für das Evangelium für das ganze Leben einsteht. Durch die Säkularisierung wird der Kontrast deutlicher (46).

Noch ein übergeordnetes Wort zur Kulturtheologie: Das Ziel von Gottes Reich ist das Zusammengehen von Himmel und Erde, wenn der Wohnort Gottes zu den Menschen kommt und Gott diese Schöpfung verwandelt (Offenbarung 21). Man kann in der Jetztzeit von zwei Seiten vom Pferd fallen. Entweder durch eine überrealisierte Eschatologie, welche einen zukünftigen Zustand des Reiches vorwegnehmen will und darum in unrealistische, utopische Erwartungen und ein politisiertes Evangelium fällt. Oder in eine Unterbetonung des jetzigen Wirkens Gottes, begleitet von verschwörerischen prophetischen Karten und/oder kultureller Apathie (58). In dieses Spannungfeld stellt Russell Moore den bunten Strauss an Fragen rund um das soziale Engagement der Christen. „Wir handeln stets aus dem Rahmen des Evangeliums und nie losgelöst davon, und dies in verbaler Verkündigung und aktiver Demonstration.“ (104)

Diese Überlegungen werden dann auf verschiedene Bereiche angewendet: Die Herleitung der menschlichen Würde steht vor der ausschliesslichen, kampagnenhaften Anwendung auf den Lebensschutz. Die versuchte Trennung von Körper und Seele wird mit der Misere der sexuellen Beliebigkeit in Zusammenhang gebracht. Ebenso warnt Russell vor einer „doppelten Waage“ in der Ausländerfrage. Vehement setzt er sich dafür ein, dass unterschiedliche Überzeugungen öffentlich ausgesprochen werden können, auch nicht-christliche. Denn bei einer reinen Zivilreligion fungiert der Staat als Interessensvertreter.

Fazit: Dies ist eine durch und durch amerikanische Publikation, auch von der Art und Weise der Gedankenführung her. Es ist also etwas Anpassung und Ausdauer gefragt. Diese Geduld wird durch den reichen Teppich an Bibelzitaten belohnt, denen weiter nachgegangen werden kann. Russell versteht es zudem, durch kurze, zitierwürdige Sätze die Aufmerksamkeit des Lesers zu halten.

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Carole in Calgary

I am grateful there are people like Russel Moore representing Jesus Christ on the public stage

Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2016

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A book filled with the integrity of the Gospel lived out. I am grateful there are people like Russel Moore representing Jesus Christ on the public stage.