Entertaining Ourselves to Death?... the Crisis in Christian Youth Culture

by Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom is an international author and speaker - as well as a bass guitarist with a long history of involvement in Christian music, video, promotion, recording, and Youth ministry. In this hard-hitting book he asks some very pointed questions about today's Christian music and Youth culture. For instance: When Christianity becomes just like the world is it still Christianity? When we feel we have to entertain and entertain in order to get people into our meetings, is Jesus still at the center? When we become desperate to be seen as "cool" or 'relevant' to the worldy culture all around us, does it affect the gospel we preach? When we feel we have to tone down the use of the word "Jesus" in our music or the word "sin" in our preaching, isn't this blatant compromise? And when our Christian Youth seem to care just as much about fashion, extreme sports, looking 'cool' and being entertained as the worldy kids around them, is it true Christianity at all? If you care about these issues and the answers to these questions, then you need to read this penetrating book.

Genres: Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 2008

About the author

Andrew Strom is an international author and speaker, founder of RevivalSchool.com and the international REVIVAL List. He is the author of ten books including 'True & False Revival', 'Secrets of the Early Church' and 'The Coming Great Reformation'. His latest book, 'Century of Collapse' shows how a massive spiritual crisis across the developed world has propelled our civilization to an epic fall.

Andrew's fiery preaching style could be likened to that of David Wilkerson, Ray Comfort or Paul Washer. He has been married to his wife Jacqui for more than 30 years and they have six grown-up children.

Reviews

[Rodney Hall · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is outside mainstream thought, or even consideration. It is well worth the read even if just to challenge thoughts on how we think of and treat entertainment in culture and in education. Have television and media dumbed us down. Were 19th century citizens more knowledgeable and informed than we are today. Challenging questions indeed.

[Mary]

Fascinating.

[Chloe Ng-inactive · Rating 2 out of 5]

boi the logic doesn’t stand! it might sound great on paper but this genre of books—the world is ending because of this new form of media—is so prevalent it’s honestly getting tiring to read. maybe it’s just me being a gen z dumbass but i don’t like this book and it’s kind of dumb

[Marissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thought provoking. Worth the read.

[Melody · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting and thought provoking book.