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| They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Kimball
Publisher: Zondervan
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0310245907
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.30830842
EAN: 9780310245902
ASIN: 0310245907
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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 Life Changing Book April 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A life changing book with a real honest (and solution based) look at the church. I highly recommend this book. May it give all who read it insight into this mission field we call the United States.
Great Resource for Church Leadership April 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Are you in leadership within your church? Are you puzzled about why people between 18 and 30 (or so) seem to disappear from the church and have tons of harsh criticisms of the church? Are you too lazy to seek these people out to ask them for yourselves?
If you answered yes to any of these three questions, then you should pick up this book and read it.
They Like Jesus But Not the Church is an exploration of author Dan Kimball's interactions and conversations with members of what has been termed the emerging generation. Young adults who are intelligent, knowledgeable, and hungry for more. All of those that Dan interviewed and spent time with have been hurt or burned by the institutional church in some way. Yet they are all attracted to the person of Jesus. Dan spends a lot of time exploring the negative perceptions that these people have of the church that put them off from getting involved, and offers us practical advice and guidance on how best to counter these perceptions.
Throughout the whole book Dan is very humble and apologetic (at times almost too apologetic for my tastes), seeking not to create any serious rifts within the church. His heart for Christ and his heart for the church both show through his writing. He shares that even though the church has earned some of the negative perceptions that this generation has of it, he still loves it as what it is supposed to be and is and (at many times) is striving to become. This is not a call for the church to be disbanded at all, merely to examine how we are treating people, and whether or not we are creating such a deep "Christian subculture" that we seek to force people to adhere to that we are actually pushing people away before they can really encounter the cross.
The one real weakness that I have with the book is that Kimball's sample audience is (largely) confined to a local (for him) coffee shop that he frequents and a few others that he interacts with. However, this is offset by the fact that over the past several years in youth ministry I have seen these same (types of) people over and over. They are seeking to know Jesus, just not through the church.
The book is solid. Kimball excels at leaving you with many questions on your heart about how you can take this new information and applying it to your own ministry. Questions that will force you to think through your own actions and attitudes toward those outside the church. Just bear in mind that it is indeed written with church leadership as its primary audience (the companion book for those not in church leadership comes out in the near future), so make sure that if you are not in leadership in your church that you remember that. And if you are not, make sure that you share it with those in your church who are. They should get a lot out of it.
 Same old song and dance! March 28, 2008
2 out of 23 found this review helpful
These emergent churches are really just putting a new coat of paint on a tired old routine. The author really doesn't differ in any significant from the rank and file evangelical, he is just more insidious about his tactics for proselytizing. Kind of like the way these people dress up creationism as intelligent design. How utterly pathetic!
 Follow JESUS not man......HE won't dissapoint you! March 23, 2008
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was browsing around the christian books aisle in my favorite store Barnes and Nobles, when the title of this book caught my eye, I immediately read the inside and back cover to get a feel of what I was about to read. I followed my instinct and paid the 20.00 for this book that was SUPPOSED to help me understand why people don't like going to church, well halfway through the book I see why people don't like going to church, It is people like the author that keep people from knowing the REAL LOVE OF JESUS! I felt that Dan was arrogant and self-centered and he was very Manipulative with the people he interviewed. I personally come across christians who have this "LOVE THEM TO CHRIST!" type of attitude and it appears very false. Scripture says "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and have no love I am a noiseless cymbal!" Dan might mean well with his Ministry but I sense no LOVE with his actions, he is as religous and self righteous as the rest of them. I am a christian and believe in Jesus Christ, but all christians do not SPEAK for me. We as christians look for ansewers so much, that we follow anyone that has written a book or is on T.V.! They are MAN with the same kind of problems and need the same ansewers as you and I do. The chapter,"The church is Homophobic" really had me questioning what does Dan really know about Homosexuals? I agreed with him on the interpretation of Homosexuality and how christians take it out of context to justify their beliefs but he really does need to do his Homework in the Gay Community and not use "TWO" stories of Women who he kept saying had "same-sex attractions" and "struggled" Terms that really are a scapegoat of who you REALLY ARE! your either Gay,Straight,BI or living a LIE! The story of "Karen" is the story of people that try to go the EX-GAY route which has been proven to be a total failure to alot of people. I appreciate Karen being celibate and living for christ but their was alot of self hatred with her story, I talk with alot of Gay and Lesbian people who have this similiar self hatred when Manipulated by christians. Their is also the chapter when Dan took Karen's story and "Played it out" in his church with a 21-year old lesbian girl who they supposedly "Embraced" and read scriptures with? what scripture? didn't Jesus say "Judge not lest ye be judged?" I'm saying this because he told her that she couldn't bring her GAY LIFESTYLE into the church and that he had to stick to the scriptures. I found that very Hypocritical and that is when I closed the book, I'm glad that girl left I hope and pray she finds a REAL CHURCH. I am not condemning Dan Kimball and his ministry, I do believe without a doubt he is a christian but please follow JESUS not man.....HE Won't Dissapoint you. I recommend Jay Bakker's(Tammy Faye Messner's son) Dvd One Punk Under God, You would have a REAL insight on the LOVE of Jesus Christ.
church March 10, 2008
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
I could not believe that anyone would publish this book and want to be taken seriously. It pretends to be a hard hitting book telling the church something most of us know. On the other hand there are a lot of people out there that are not totally turned off by the church. His examples were weak and self centered. he kind of acts like he is the only guy making friends and he eye opening things to tell us. in reality I talk wiht pastors every day and many of them are working on coffee shops and meeting people in different places. i again would recommend things written by Jim Henderson and believe you would gain a lot more from them than this one. i keep thinking the books will match the title and they don't. i am beginning to think anyone could get a book published if he worked hard enough at it. I think as followers of Jesus we should ask for more from our writers and artist. We settle for anything as long as the person can spell Jesus right.
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