The Next Christians: How a New Generation Is Restoring the Faith
Gabe Lyons
Doubleday, 2010, 192 pp., $22.99
Gabe Lyons gives us a fitting follow-up to his previous best seller unChristian, in which we learned the newest generation, regardless of what has gone before, is wholly unChristian.
The Next Christians pick up where this leaves off and challenges us to “make the word Christian mean something good, intelligent, authentic, true and beautiful.” The Next Christians no longer will be satisfied to separate from the world or blend into it, but rather they thoughtfully engage. Lyons gives us the challenge to hope that the end of Christian America is in fact the catalyst of a new era of faith marked by new Christians who are provoked, not offended; creators, not critics; called, not employed; in community, not alone; and countercultural, not relevant.
This book is a must-read for all those who crave Christianity the way it ought to be, not just the way it is. If you are longing for a Christianity that tells the whole story, including creation and restoration…and if you are among those who have not just been saved from something but to something, The Next Christians will show us the way.
