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Smuggling Jesus Back into the Church: How the church became worldly and what to do about it
What’s gone wrong with the church?
If you’ve been feeling that something vital has gone missing from our spiritual lives, you’re not alone. But from scandals involving celebrity preachers, to busy programmes that have little sense of God and struggling to find time to pray, what is it that lies behind the church is crisis? Is it possible that we’ve forgotten to put Jesus at the centre of everything? And if so, what can do we about it?
In Smuggling Jesus Back into Church Andrew Fellows shows us with a sharp eye how secularism has reshaped church culture, changing the way many Christians and churches live and worship without being noticed. Both provocative and practical, he challenges us to live with radical Christ-like distinctiveness - distinctiveness that requires both reformation by the church and revival by the Holy Spirit.
Timely and prophetic, Smuggling Jesus Back into Church is essential reading for anyone concerned about the effects of secularism on Christianity and modern church culture, or for anyone who struggles with Church and wants to understand why. Filled with passion and vision, it will point you back towards Jesus and revitalise your understanding of what Christian discipleship should be.
It’s time to remember what lies at the heart of our faith. It’s time to smuggle Jesus back into church and back into the centre of our lives.
If you’ve been feeling that something vital has gone missing from our spiritual lives, you’re not alone. But from scandals involving celebrity preachers, to busy programmes that have little sense of God and struggling to find time to pray, what is it that lies behind the church is crisis? Is it possible that we’ve forgotten to put Jesus at the centre of everything? And if so, what can do we about it?
In Smuggling Jesus Back into Church Andrew Fellows shows us with a sharp eye how secularism has reshaped church culture, changing the way many Christians and churches live and worship without being noticed. Both provocative and practical, he challenges us to live with radical Christ-like distinctiveness - distinctiveness that requires both reformation by the church and revival by the Holy Spirit.
Timely and prophetic, Smuggling Jesus Back into Church is essential reading for anyone concerned about the effects of secularism on Christianity and modern church culture, or for anyone who struggles with Church and wants to understand why. Filled with passion and vision, it will point you back towards Jesus and revitalise your understanding of what Christian discipleship should be.
It’s time to remember what lies at the heart of our faith. It’s time to smuggle Jesus back into church and back into the centre of our lives.
213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2022
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June 17, 2023
Something is up with the church and the answer is worldliness, we have enculturated ourselves to the world and lost our distinctiveness Andrew Fellows argues. Fellows goes through what wordiness is and how it is not retreating and actually has less to do with what you do but more to do with what you accommodate in your mindset. He looks at the 4 super-values of our culture: egoism, naturalism, hedonism and politicise and shows where these have infected the church and how a renewed focus on Christ is necessary, there was unfortunately two-kingdom theology which did come into his analysis of politicism and the inconsistency was seen pages later as he was calling us to do something that a theological commitment had shown he is not doing (God's law in the civil realm). But the book was great and well worth reading for all who care about the church being the salt and light in a period where Christ seems to be winnowing His church.
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