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ALMOST CHRISTIAN : WHAT THE FAITH OF OUR TEENAGERS IS TELLING THE AMERICAN CHURCH

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Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor and monumental publication, Soul Searching:

The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Almost Christian, investigates a new question about American youth: why are American teenagers at once so positive about Christianity, and at the same time so apathetic about traditional forms of religious practice?

Instead of proclaiming a God who calls believers to salvation, discipleship, and love churches offer instead a merely practical religion, easy to use, easy to forget, offering little and demanding less.

In short, most churches profer a Christianity that teaches one how to pay their bills on time, be good citizens, and how to avoid conflict.

So what is to be done? In order to produce ardent young Christians, Dean argues, churches must rediscover their sense of mission and model an understanding of being Christian as not something you do for yourself, but something that calls you to share God's love, in word and deed, with others.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195314847
Item #: 10073
Binding: Hardcover
Chapters: 9
Page Count: 254
Publication Date: 2010



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