Five years ago, James Davison Hunter wrote To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. This book has loomed large in the conversation about how Christians should interact with culture, though many Christian scholars and pastors disagree with Hunter’s prescription that, rather than try to change the world, Christians should seek simply to be faithfully present in the world.
Last week, The Gospel Coalition released a multi-author eBook evaluating and responding to Hunter’s thesis. The book is called Revisiting ‘Faithful Presence.’My guest today on The Gospel Coalition Podcast is Vermon Pierre, one of the contributors to that book. Pierre is lead pastor for preaching and mission at Roosevelt Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of Gospel Shaped Living, the latest installment in the Gospel Shaped Church curriculum published by The Good Book Company and TGC. We talked about what it means for Christians to be “aggressively gracious” as we seek to be a counterculture for the common good.
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If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say?
Jesus’s treatment of women was revolutionary. That’s why they flocked to him. Wherever he went, they sought him out. Women sat at his feet and tugged at his robes. They came to him for healing, for forgiveness, and for answers. So what did women see in this first-century Jewish rabbi and what can we learn as we look through their eyes today?
In Jesus Through the Eyes of Women, Rebecca McLaughlin explores the life-changing accounts of women who met the Lord. By entering the stories of the named and unnamed women in the Gospels, this book gives readers a unique lens to see Jesus as these women did and marvel at how he loved them in return.
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