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| Ed Stetzer |
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Lifeway Reseach Team, Visiting Professor at Trinity, Author of Breaking the Missional Code, Comeback Churches, Planting Missional Churches, etc. |
"Kary calls us to walk a fine line indeed, by becoming neither slaves to, nor haters of, culture. Instead, he calls us to be transform our cultures with the good news of the gospel and the Kingdom. The Fine Line will help you think more biblically about the balance between contending (Jude 3) and contextualizing (1 Cor. 9:22-23)." |
| Shane Claiborne |
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Founding member of The Simple Way, Author of Irresistable Revolution and Jesus for President |
"The world needs Christians who are both culturally relevant and culturally peculiar. The Fine Line stirs up the critical question of what it means to have a faith that is in touch with the world we live in and yet maintains the distinctiveness of the counter-culture of Christ. We need a Church of culturally relevant radical nonconformists who are part of transforming the patterns of this world to align with the patterns of the upside-down kingdom of God." |
| Nancy Ortberg |
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Author of Looking for God, and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands |
"It’s not often that a book addressing issues of cultural relevancy for the church can do it in a way that inspires hope. I am SO glad I read this book, and am already using many of the ideas in it to help our church become the kind of vibrant community of Christ followers that impacts and attracts those both inside and outside its walls.
The questions in this book are both fundamental and profound, and every church in America needs to wrestle with them, to wake us up from our ‘slumber of irrelevance.’" |
| Reggie McNeal |
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Author of The Present Future, Get a Life, A Work of Heart, Practicing Greatness, etc. |
"Kary Oberbrunner makes a helpful and hopeful contribution to an age-old spiritual paradox, calling Jesus-followers to accountability and authenticity in our relationship to the world around us. |
| Mike Foster |
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President of Ethur, Founder of Junky Car Club, Author of Questions you can't ask mama, Deadly Vipers |
"Kary does a great job at presenting a balanced, thoughtful, and yet challenging case for Christians to re-engage and become culture creators." |
| Mark Waltz |
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Pastor of Connections at Granger Community Church, Author of First Impressions and Lasting Impression |
"Kary writes with an honest vulnerability that compels an equally honest and vulnerable look into your life. You'll find yourself wrestling with questions of relevance related to your ministry, and you won't escape the illumination of your internal motives as you interact with God and people on a day-to-day basis." |
| Dave Ferguson |
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Lead Pastor and Spiritual Entrepreneur of Community Christians Church and New Thing Netork, Co-Author of The Big Idea |
"I'm looking forward to the release of The Fine Line and the impact that is is going to make for this generation, a very thoughtful, well-written and important book for our time." |
| Preaching Today |
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Preaching Today |
"This book has a lot to say to us as Christians, but I would contend it has a lot to say to us as preachers. How do we help people navigate the complexity of being "in the world but not of it?" How can we illustrate that complexity in our own preaching—in our weekly opportunity to speak of culture, speak to culture, speak into culture, speak of a new, transformed culture, or even, as Andy Crouch says, speak in such a way that we create culture? There's a lot here to explore and a lot here to pass on to fellow ministers, fellow staff members, elders, and a congregation as a whole." |
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