How the Light Shines Through: Resilient Witness in Dark Times

by Chad Lakies

Sad, frustrated, confused, even angry, many Christians struggle today to understand their role in a world that seems so different from what they had been used to. Social and cultural challenges in today's society has left them feeling ill-equipped.


How the Light Shines Through will comfort and encourage readers with those feelings, reminding them that they can confidently lean on the elements of the Christian tradition to find their way.

Written and organized in three sections, How the Light Shines


In Section 1, offers a selected history of how society got to this point and acknowledges the struggle and frustration many Christians feel in the face of a changing culture.

In Section 2, then defines three main concerns of our secular age and how they appear in the lives of people around us.

In Section 3, finally builds on that foundation, and offers strategies for living faithfully as the Church in our modern context, including chapters on evangelism, bridging relational gaps, and overcoming the idol of identity.

276 pages, Paperback

Published July 3, 2024

Reviews

[The_J · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is flawed, at best; it presents Secularism as just appeared, as though it is Athena bursting forth full grown from Zeus" forehead. What a pathetic lack of understanding, from a supposed man of the cloth and one knowledgeable about American society. Let's start with the Enlightenment, move to Freud, or even focus on Nietzsche "God is Dead." Europe has been in a Post-Christian state perhaps since the turn of the Millenia. But suddenly the specter of Secularism is waived and pointed at as the today's Boogie man. I believe that for all of the stale quotes and recitations from articles of a decade or more ago, that we, the Remnant, ... we mighty few, and maybe not as few as the Anti-Christian Media, Culture and Obama/Biden's government would have us believe, just have to share and live our faith and trust not in the many tentacles of the corrupted Bride of Christ, those entitled Princes of the Church. The subtitle is "Resilient Witness in Dark Times" and it is an apt description of what is needed, but this book is more of a road map of how we got to these Dark times rather than God's light shining on a path to the new Jerusalem.

[Martha Van Buskirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

"How the Light Shines Through / Resilient Witness in Dark Times" is insightful and engaging. Acknowledging our current realities, author Lakies challenges and encourages. He “invites us to imagine better ways to interact with the world around us—ways to let the light shine through and reflect the life-changing love of Jesus to our neighbors.” It's a fresh and welcome guidebook, adding bright concepts and practices to the believer's toolbox.

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have listened to the author speak a number of times and have aways been impressed. His book follows that pattern. You should read this book.

I find it hard to disagree with much in the book. It provides not only a thorough analysis of what we get wrong in the contemporary church about engaging with our decline and culture as a whole, but he also offers reasonable and historically rooted solutions for a resilient witness.

[Jim Pevy · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book

this book is filled with tools to equip believers to engage others and share the Good News of Jesus with others