-Dr. Dave Plaster – Grace College, Vice President of Academic Affairs

I think Kary has struck the critical cord of evangelism today. He gives the Christian who is earnestly committed to reaching his world for Christ incredible biblical insight and coaching as to how to avoid the extremes of being a "separatist" or a "conformist" and how to walk the effective line of being a "transformist". This is a must reading for the students I work with on the college campus!
-Matt Kuchers - Central Ohio Ministry and Community Coordinator Campus Crusade for Christ

Heart-stirring! This book saddened me as I thought about non-Christians who get their impression of Jesus from the separatists or the conformists they come in contact with. I was even more saddened for the times I’ve been a separatist or a conformist and given the wrong impression of Jesus to others. I was moved by the author’s transparency of the tremendous struggle he’s had in trying to maintain a balance between two polar opposites. It heightened my awareness of a very gray and “hard to handle” subject.
-Misti May – Leadership Development Consultant

This book exposes the truth that in order to transform culture we need to embrace the transcendent God and love the people created in His image. The Journey Towards Relevance challenges readers to follow Christ's example of this vibrant tension and to live lives fully engaged with their families, faith, community, and world.
-Harvey A. Hook - Executive Director of the Gathering

"We need more books like this one that tickle our thinking. Many Christians are no different from the masses. They would rather follow someone else’s recipe than contemplate their own. It is much easier. Kary clarifies two of the most popular "recipes" that of the conformist and that of the separatist. Neither leads us to contemplate our Creator. Neither leads to deeply changing our spirit. Neither leads to relevance. Read on and let God transform you as only His Spirit can."
-Chet Scott - Founder of Built to Lead

I'm still chewing on a lot of the points you made and I’m beginning to work on incarnating them. You've pumped me up and directed me to the path of becoming a true transformist! I've got a lot of work to do, but thanks for the encouragement, guidance, and challenge! Hopefully with this new insight, I can make a huge difference for Christ at my college. Thanks for sharing what God has laid on your heart with me. I think it will challenge others like it’s challenged me.

The book definitely stirred my heart. In fact, I've been in a state of "spiritual mourning" these past few days after reading The Journey Towards Relevance. I realized that I’ve spent most of my high school career living as a separatist. I'm sure God could have done so much more through me if I‘d only been a transformist. I was challenged to reflect on what was keeping me from taking this next step of becoming a transformist. I came to grips with the fact that my unbalanced love for God, to the exclusion of a love for people, was not true love at all! This was a very hard thing to deal with because my love for God was what I had prided myself in, being a separatist and all. But I didn't even love God wholistically. The sad thing is, is that I never even realized all this until I read your book.

The Journey Towards Relevance captures a struggle I’ve encountered. In fact, it captured many struggles. Once I realized that I was a separatist, the struggles that you mentioned about becoming a transformist were dead on. I wanted to be relevant to people, but I struggled with taking that risk and stepping out into a position that was no longer safe. I’d especially recommend this book to my other Christian friends in high school and college. Like I mentioned earlier, I feel that I could’ve had a bigger impact, had I better understood the tension of being in the world and not of it. This is definitely an area that all my Christian friends struggle with as well. We constantly feel this tension. Up until this point, no one has offered any real answers. This book sheds light on how to deal with that tension.

-Catherine Franco, College Student