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| They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Kimball
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6794
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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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Helpful, but too apologetic March 8, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Kimball does a good job of grappling with the way the church is percieved in culture. Too often, he is overly apologetic for the things he says, which quite often are not as biting as the apology makes them seem. For example, he perfusely apologizes for calling pastors, "weaklings." I wouldn't think to apologize for this and would probably choose a more colorful vocabulary to describe these guys. The book does what it sets out to do, which is to explore how people feel about Jesus and the Church. People are oftened turned off to methods rather than the Gospel. So let's rethink our methods and boldly proclaim the Gospel.
 If You Love Jesus And His Church February 22, 2007
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you love Jesus and love the church, I strongly encourage you to read this book with a humble heart and an open mind. First let me say that the author, Dan Kimball does not pull any punches on sin or soft sell in this book. I believe this is the heart cry of God in our polarized generation to rebuild bridges to those that have lost respect for the church. I urge you to view this book as a mirror as you read it. Like a mirror it will show you yourself as you read it.
Those interviewed in this book are both intelligent and varied in the walks of life that they represent. They range from:
*A coffee house barista
*A lead singer in a rockabilly band
*An advertising director for newspaper
*A molecular biologist
Their honest open thoughts about how they and the world outside the biosphere of Christendom views us is both heart breaking and helpful. I am glad that there are those out there who still like Jesus even though they have difficulty identifying with and relating to the church.
After reading this book I was both humbled and convicted at my own shortcomings. I was also reminded by this book, that we sometimes avoid giving people intelligent answers to their tough questions. We need to admit that we aren't perfect and don't have all of the answers, but are willing to make an honest effort to find them and humbly apologize when we are wrong.
This is just this book's effect on me personally. There is so much more to this book than I am sharing here. It reminds me of a recent movie titled "The Island". It was reminiscent of the first Matrix movie. It was
about this underground commune of clones that didn't know that they were clones. They were told that the outside world was contaminated, so they couldn't go outdoors. Their life was marked by sameness and not questioning the status quo. Their one dream was to one day when the lottery that everyone was automatically entered in and go to the island, a paradise free from contamination. I am sure I don't have to explain the parallels to what some view the church as from the outside and from those within. There was one clone among a growing few that questioned everything in his world mercilessly bringing the accepted norm to task. He eventually was the one that found the real truth and freed the other clones from the underground controlled bubble that they lived in. I see the author of this book as that lone clone questioning his environment in a world of clones where most are too content or too afraid of bucking the norm to ask sincere questions.
I hope this long winded review has whet your appetite to read this book from cover to cover. We can counteract the negative images of Christians by allowing people to get to know real Christians in their real world. We can do this by building real relationships with them without any ulterior motives other than love and a desire for their well being in this life and beyond.
The author Dan Kimball is optimistic about the church, her innate goodness, and her ability to repair the breach between herself and the rest of the world. This book is like a friend who notices you walking around in public with your shirt on backwards or inside out and tells you, so that you can change it.
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