Positively Irritating
Positively Irritating
Embracing a Post-Christian World to Form a More Faithful and Innovative Church
By Jon Ritner
An increasingly secular society, post-Christian ethics, a global pandemic …
What if these irritants could become a positive force for innovation and renewal in the church?
The Western church finds itself in the midst of a seismic cultural shift, as secular paradigms threaten to remove any spiritual explanation for life, and Christianity is often viewed with skepticism and cynicism. Rather than perceiving these ongoing challenges as irritants to expel, it’s time to see them as opportunities to embrace, so that we might effectively serve the world around us and form a more robust and Christlike church.
Jon Ritner invites you on his journey across two continents, as he moves away from a disciplemaking strategy relying on centralized property, programs, and professionals to one that empowers all the people of God to join his mission and make disciples in the everyday spaces of life.
ENDORSEMENTS
“I believe that in the post-pandemic church, this book will become required reading. It certainly will be for the students I teach and pastors I coach.”
TOD BOLSINGER, Fuller Seminary; author, Canoeing the Mountains
“With experience in a wide range of ministry contexts, Jon calls the church to embrace her new reality with innovation and faithfulness to God’s vision for God’s people in God’s world. Jon helps church leaders better step into this new reality with practical ideas for churches to more deeply understand their contexts and live into the fullness of their gifts as a healthy expression of God’s people on mission.”
TARA BETH LEACH, pastor; author, Emboldened
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