They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations Book

This was a great testimony of the emerging generation. It's so refreshing to hear words from their own mouths received with a Christian's listening ear and open and honest heart. I am encouraged that we are not required to back down from the Truth that we hold to be most valuable and we need not run from difficult ideas or things we don't understand or questions we can't answer.

Thank you, Dan, for drawing out the Truth in Scripture showing the loving way that Jesus longs to engage with this world without fear. Perfect love drives out fear, after all (1 John 4:18), and I believe that a community practicing the love of Christ within itself and reaching out to share it with the culture in which it exists will drive out the fears keeping the emerging generation (and all generations) from the church. The love of Jesus will defeat the fear in the hearts of both the lost and the found.

This book presented a clear picture of a problem that the the church has connecting with and sharing the love of Jesus with the emerging generation. Left there it would have been depressing, but Dan Kimball does not leave a reader without hope that we CAN repair the relationship that the church has with the world. My prayer is that the hope that was communicated in this book will be the catalyst to spur us on in a life of faith to pursue loving, intentional, Jesus-centered relationships with those presently outside of the church that they may be drawn to Jesus and gladly enter His church in celebration to the glory of God!