Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references (page 121).

Introduction -- Part one : The tool that turned into a tyrant. Faces of the sinister God -- The tyrannies of time -- Part two : Shorn of our secret strength. Impossible stances -- Siren calls to captivity -- Part three : Restoring the Archimedean point. The price of faithfulness -- Escaping cultural captivity -- Conclusion -- For further reading.

The buzz among evangelicals today is about relevance and reinvention, about new ways of "doing church" through revising, innovating, borrowing, mixing, and experimenting. Yet, says Os Guinness, in our uncritical pursuit of relevance, Christians have actually become irrelevant. By our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more in line with the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and significance. Prophetic Untimeliness addresses this issue by giving practical, constructive solutions for living with integrity in the midst of modern pressures. Guinness explores what it means to be both faithful and relevant, and how to be truly relevant without being trivial or trendy. Readers will be challenged to develop "resistance thinking," an approach inspired by C. S. Lewis that balances the uncomfortable truths of the gospel with the pursuit of relevance. Only by being true to Christ and living with integrity and wisdom will we meet the needs of a world that is hungry for some really good news. - Google Books.