Tim Morey
IVP Books, 2010, 204 pp., $16.00, IVPress.com
As a pastor of a denomination in decline, I often hear my members ask, “What can the church do to attract more young people?” We often wonder why the old programs aren’t working and continue to ponder what people want in a church. Sadly, we find silence. We (the church) don’t seem to know, and neither do the people who aren’t coming.
Morey argues there is a host of unmet needs in our society, a society that still hungers for meaning and purpose. Yet the church continues to marginalize itself using the same old solutions to a shifting matrix of complex issues. Morey lays out his plan that we become an “embodied apologetic.” It’s an ingenious, though seriously ambitious idea that forces us to focus less about getting the people into the church and more about getting the church into the world.
