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In the midst of American culture’s rapid-fire moral changes, whose seeds were actually sown decades ago in the sexual revolution, many Christians are asking, “What happened to the church’s influence?” It’s a good question, and it’s not surprising that concerned believers would start to ask it in larger numbers as cohabitation, gay marriage, and out-of-wedlock births all become increasingly common. 

Greg Forster digs into the question of where the church’s influence has gone and how it can be graciously reclaimed in his latest book, Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It (Crossway, 2014) [written interview]In this audio interview you’ll hear Forster, program director at the Kern Family Foundation and senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, explain how evangelical Christians have largely been too narrow when it comes to cultural engagement, putting too much stock in politics, education, and so on as the chief avenues in which they can influence others for Christ.

 

Forster contends that America—and the world—need to see joy-fueled discipleship lived out by individual believers. That means we need to stop distorting Christianity in ways that wrongly lead others to see it primarily as a formula for eliciting conversions or as a political movement. Listen as Forster unpacks what a holistic and joyful Christian life entails and how it could be key to graciously “co-opting our culture” (as he puts it in the book) in a million different ways for the glory of God.

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