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When you hear the word evangelical, do you think “good news”? That’s what the word means, and it’s what we are meant to be. Yet the surrounding culture often views us as exactly the opposite. Calling yourself an evangelical too often means you are seen through a negative stereotype; people are apprehensive when they hear that an evangelical family has moved into the neighborhood. But is this the way it has to be? What would it look like if evangelical Christians were joyfully living out the gospel in such a way that the culture had no choice but to recognize us as Good News people?
Revangelical is a call to realign your heart with the things that most concerned Jesus―a bold message to get the Good News of the gospel of Jesus back into our heads, hearts, mouths, and feet. Full of stories of evangelicals who are living out the Good News and changing the world, Revangelical will inspire and equip us to relearn the heart of the gospel and to become the people God has called us to be.
- Sales Rank: #1191158 in Books
- Brand: Ford, Lance/ Kimball, Dan (FRW)
- Published on: 2014-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .63" w x 5.50" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Review
Lance Ford brings a blast of fresh air and fresh perspective. Revangelical is highly recommended for those who are ready for a clear-eyed and good-hearted diagnosis of what's gone wrong in American evangelicalism, and a prescription for how it can get back to being the Good News it was meant to be.
Tom Krattenmaker
Contributing columnist to USA Today and author of The Evangelicals You Don't Know
Part personal narrative, part iconoclasm, part confession, Lance Ford's Revangelical challenges the entrenched idols--nationalistic, cultural, and religious--embedded in modern evangelicalism. Ford calls for renewal along the lines of evangelicalism's own primary concern . . . that of the gospel itself. A prophetic call to re-evangelize the church.
Alan Hirsch
Author of Untamed, The Permanent Revolution, and numerous award winning books
Here is a path forward for evangelicalism that integrates the best of the past (e.g., the missiology of E. Stanley Jones) while it innovates for the future out of theological integrity, not political correctitude. Enjoy finding nuggets of wisdom on every page, not, as all too often, scattered throughout like breadcrumbs in a forest.
Leonard Sweet
Bestselling author, professor (Drew University, George Fox University), and chief contributor to sermons.com
What I like most about this book is its courage and candor. I find Lance Ford's careful but plainspoken assessments and exhortations very refreshing and welcome--in fact, needed! He offers sound wisdom that calls the people of God to first-order things.
Mark Labberton
President of Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today
Lance Ford's new book is an uncompromising call for us to be rewired by the Good News of King Jesus in order to bring restoration and renewal to an exhausted, chaotic, and strife-ridden world, regardless of the implications for our priorities, our politics, or our pocketbooks. Inspiring and prophetic in the best sense of that term.
Michael Frost
Author of Incarnate, The Road to Missional, and Exiles
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A blast of fresh air and fresh perspective. . . . Highly recommended. (Tom Krattenmaker, Contributing columnist for USA Today)
From the Back Cover
When you hear the word evangelical, do you think “Good News”?
That’s what the word means, and it’s what we’re meant to be. Yet too often, it’s not how others see us. Do you ever say you’re an evangelical Christian and see others immediately grow defensive? Do they assume you’re judgmental or angry; do they make assumptions about your beliefs, your intelligence, or your politics?
When people look at us, do they see the Jesus we claim to love?
Lance Ford has learned firsthand the critical importance of rediscovering what it means to live the Good News. In this groundbreaking book, he calls us as Christians to be re-evangelized―to realign our hearts with the things that most concerned Jesus. To transcend the culture wars and get back to the gospel of the Kingdom of Heav-en. To joyfully live the gospel in such a way that the surrounding culture will have no choice but to recognize us as Good News people.
In Revangelical, Ford offers inspiring glimpses of a life-changing, church-stirring movement and shares hope-filled stories of evangelicals who are living out the Good News. The revangelicals are changing the world. Are you ready to join them?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A book so true that it will offend most American Christians
By Scott Uselman
Revangelical is a much needed book for the American Church. Lance Ford has placed his finger on some of the issues that the American Church seems to struggle with. In fact, it seems that the American Church struggles to place her citizenship in God's Kingdom above the citizenship of the United States.
For those who carefully read Scripture, and truly desire to allow Scripture and The Holy Spirit, to help them become more like Christ I would suggest that this book is helpful. Ford points out that Christians, "little Christs," are meant to be Good News People. He further suggests that the American Church does not seem to be the Good News People that God intended His Church to be. In fact, it could be argued that we, in the Western Church, are more focused on cursing than the Good News.
Ford accurately pointed that most church people do not seem to be able to define what the Good News is. He conducted experiments, as have I, with pastors and lay people about explaining what the Good News is; many can't. According to Ford, Jesus' Good News is about the "in-breaking Kingdom of God." In fact, that is what Jesus said too. In the book of Mark, Jesus said the Good News is that the Kingdom of God has come near.
The idea of the "in-breaking Kingdom" is Good News for the poor and oppressed. This thought leads us into the confrontation that so many Evangelicals who are against government aid for the poor and immigrants, seem to be missing the Kingdom since their focus is on a simple belief statement through what is known as "The Sinner's Prayer," as well as mixed with loyalties toward a political party. Evangelicals need to keep in mind that God's people embraces the poor and serves the poor. Furthermore, Evangelicals, if they are like Jesus, have arms that embrace undocumented citizens since that is God's agenda too. Since most Evangelicals have settled for the idea of salvation contingent upon a proper belief about Jesus with no worry about entering into God's Kingdom "on earth as it is in Heaven," the urgent message seems to be that they must refocus on what Jesus focused on; His in-breaking Kingdom which requires action as the result of belief.
Ford also challenged the way we do church today. Evangelicals are focused on building churches up with professional communicators and musicians, but do not seem to be focused on building up God's Kingdom. As a small church pastor myself, I find the mission of Jesus to bring Good News to everyone a great low-budget way to build up a church. After all, the by-product of sharing the Good News is a growing church.
The hard point for me personally is that Ford challenged my patriotism in regard for war. Yet, only in the sense that we should not be rejoicing over the death of the enemy, or desiring to be at war. He reminded me of the desire that Jesus has for peace in our world; especially from the result of being a Good News Person. He also reminds us that love truly conquers all. Contrary to another review about this book, this does not seem to be a political book. In fact, this is a Kingdom book. It is a book that turns away from the question, "if you die tonight, where will your soul end up?" It is a book that faces the real question that each person must wrestle with, "How will you live in God's Kingdom today if you live?"
It seems that Evangelicals need to read this book to remind each one of us that The Universal Church is the result of Christ's in-breaking Kingdom. And, because His Kingdom is in-breaking there are non-negotiable characteristics of this Kingdom if it is truly of Him. My fear, as well as Ford's, seems to be that Christians in the west, particularly in America, are not showing those who are lost this Kingdom. This Kingdom has been supplanted to our individualism. Our individualism is something most church leaders and Christians understand and is dealt with by Ford too.
Therefore, I recommend this book to all who want to be Christians (little Christs), and embrace the opportunity to take part in Jesus's movement of the in-breaking Kingdom and become the Good News People that we were meant to be.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Is Your Gospel Too Small?
By Joshua Lee Henry
Is there nothing more to being an "evangelical Christian" other than simply voting conservative in politics, embracing a capitalistic view of economy, and preaching the Bible as the inerrant Word of God, meant for establishing the morality code of a society? Is the developed and free world, namely the United States of America, really a foretaste of Heaven's coming reality on earth? Does Jesus' command to "love your enemy" include Muslims and liberals? These questions, and the gross misconceptions they represent, address just some of the issues that Lance Ford tackles head on in his new book "Revangelical: Becoming the Good News People We're Meant to Be" published by Tyndale Momentum.
Unfortunately, my preceding list of general inquires captures the heart's concern and stereotype of many whom claim to be in the evangelical camp. As a self-identified, evangelical, I myself am thankful for this new book and the gentle correction it brings, not just to poor theology, but more importantly, for a repentance and renewal of the genuine Christian life.
Lance is a speaker, consultant and cofounder of the Sentralizled conferences. He is also on the national leadership team for the Forge America missional training network and is a board member for Missio. Like his previous books, Right Here, Right Now", coauthored with Alan Hirsch, (2011) "Unleader" (2012), and "The Missional Quest" coauthored with Brad Brisco (2013), "Revangelical" (2014), is a prophetic call to action for the Western Church at large.
As the title of this book suggests, Lance believes there is a need in the North American Church to "recalibrate", "reunite", "restore", and "reposition" (just some of the chapter titles), our current understanding of the Gospel and how it is shared with others.
As a native Texan who came to faith during the Cold War era, Ford learned early on that the Pledge of Allegiance held equal, if not more weight, than the Lord's Prayer. In the time period that saw the emergence of Ronald Reagan and the "Religious Right", the Good News of the Kingdom of God was also sadly reduced to the articulation of "four spiritual laws" and a sales pitch for cosmic fire insurance. Indeed for some, the gospel has become too small.
So what is a "Revangelical"? Lance gives definition to his made-up word by stating that revangelicals are really just a new breed of evangelicals that are converted to the entire gospel in authentically living by the empowering work of the Holy Spirit, to be Good News people in the world. Lance writes that "Revangelicals are followers of Jesus who have moved beyond merely favoring Jesus with their belief in him and have committed themselves to actually following him with the substance of their day-to-day lives. They take Jesus' words very personally, and often quite literally, and are convinced that his example is indeed a livable model and standard for us to emulate. Revangelicals are those who seek to live their lives as Good News people for the Kingdom of Heaven, even if it costs them the American Dream" (p. 19).
He goes on to explain how the word "evangelical" comes from the same word as "gospel" and that as Christians or followers of Jesus; we are to be disciples who embody the Good News, right here, right now. Continuing, Lance states that "Revangelicals have come to the conclusion that if what Jesus taught and commanded is too impractical for the real world, then the real world must be false" (p. 20).
Recently I had coffee with a young "twenty-something" who is currently attending a small Bible college. As we sat talking to each other from across the table, my spirit became troubled. He told me of how during the first two weeks of his evangelism class, the professor focused more on teaching flashy communication techniques, apologetic arguments, and models for conversion that seemed all too formulaic. Not a single mention of the Kingdom, no talk of mercy and compassion, and an apparent absence of anything that sounded like a pleasant and joyful announcement. However, as Lance Ford explains, that is the very kind of exclamation Jesus made as he embarked upon his public ministry. In Luke 4:18-19, we read that just after his baptism, Jesus walked into the synagogue of Nazareth on the Sabbath, and declared that "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" (NRSV).
Quoting the prophet Isaiah, Jesus makes a public announcement that preaches grace, justice, salvation, and abundance. The Good News Jesus made known, resembled the declaration of the year of Jubilee. During this time, family, freedom, and forgiveness were available to all. This is the kind of Good News evangelicals should be known for. Instead of messages of hate and damnation, revangelicals preach heaven come near and demonstrate it in both word and action. As the saying goes, revangelicals are more known by what they stand for, what Jesus stated as love, rather than what they stand against. Truly, love is the greatest gift; ripest of all spiritual fruit and the number one marker by which the world can tell we are Christ's disciples.
Through stories from his own life and the lives of other revangelicals, Lance makes clear that this love, the love that compelled God to send His only Son into the world to die as an eternal sacrifice, is exhibited in the Church when we incarnate the Gospel into our neighborhoods, identify with the poor and marginalized, value stewardship over ownership, and confess salvation in Jesus more than condemning sinners and casting judgment.
Revangelicals share the earth shattering news of God's Kingdom breaking forth into our reality by the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. They place their hope in a bloodied and wooden cross, stained red by the shedding of God's life for the reconciling of creation, instead of a flagpole. It is not the stars and stripes of the good old red, white, and blue revangelicals commit their life to, but the scars of Christ and the stripes of His wounds in which we find our healing.
Ford clarifies the Kingdom of God as being neither communist nor socialist, but admittedly communal and social. Revangelicals put their trust in the Lamb not the elephant or donkey. They understand life as exiles sent on mission to live in but not of the world.
As a millennial Christian leader, pioneering missional communities on multiple university campuses, I have become all too familiar with the research on the "nones" -those that identify as "no religious affiliation" and the negative attitudes postmoderns have towards all things church. Ford makes clear that it is not relevance that will attract younger generations, but a fresh encounter with the Risen Lord. This type of ministry service brings the Kingdom of God right into the center of the local community. One of my favorite stories of how Lance fleshes this out with the church planters he coaches involves driving around Kansas City's Troost Avenue, the line of socio-economic demarcation with U2's song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a constant replay loop in the car.
Through the practical experience of Lance's frontline ministry adventures and his engagement with the current missional church movement, he shares how advancements in the Church's future can be found in the remembering of great missionary heroes of years past. For this I am thankful Ford draws on the rich well of wisdom found in the missiological writings of E. Stanley Jones. First addition copies of "Christ at the Round Table" (1928), "The Christ of Every Road" (1930) and "Conversion" (1959) sit atop my office desk. In our current pluralistic age, there is much to be learned from this great peacemaker and missionary to India. Jones truly embodied the Good News of Jesus Christ to a country that had nearly as many Hindu gods as its population count. In a brief statement to close a chapter section, Ford summarizes his argument by saying "Revangelicals are those Christians who seek to live their lives as Jesus would live if he were us" (p. 51).
Complete with an accompanying website (www.revangelicalbook.com), supplementary videos, small group resources, and discussion questions at the end of each chapter, "Revangelical" is a timely resource for the Church and presents an incredible opportunity for ambassadors of the Kingdom to embrace the Good News.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
What are we to make of books like this one
By DocRoc
What are we to make of books like this one . . . books that challenge us to live our faith outside our comfort zones . . . books that demonstrate there are other ways to walk in the narrow Way . . . books that challenge us to be more like Jesus and less like American Christians . . . books that offer definable ways to demonstrate that the kingdom is available rather than the mere belief system of our imperial christendom? If good preaching, as the saying goes, "comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable" then this book is timely in every way. The term "evangelical", the author suggests, needs to be taken back from those who promote it as anything but "good news" and be redefined as exactly that, the good news of Jesus the Christ.
The first chapter, "Recalibrate" tells of the author's personal journey from a conservative evangelical to a missional revangelical and serves somewhat as the author's own Foreword to the book.
In the next chapter, "Repent", the author tries to discover why evangelicals are leaving at the rate of nearly 50,000 people a week and what can be done about it. The answer of course is to "repent", but of what? Repent of what has become evangelical Christianity and (re)turn to the gospel of Jesus.
In "Recommit", the third chapter, we are introduced to the "us-vs.-them" mentality in regard to evangelicals and how they shun the world for their personal protection but by doing so fail to make roadways by which to share the good news. This is the longest chapter of the book (37 pages) as it should to be in order to explain what commitment to Jesus means and does not mean in relation to the world we live in.
Chapter 4, entitled "Reconcile" is a chatty little chapter filled with anecdotes of people who no longer experience the "us-vs.-them" worldview and are instead making inroads into peoples' lives without compromising their own faith.
In the next chapter, "Represent", we are challenged to continue the incarnation of Jesus as his body in the here and now. What that looks like may surprise you.
In the 6th chapter, "Renew", we encounter what may be the greatest obstacle for an evangelical to become a revangelical, namely, Jubilee or in our day and age economic and social justice. The author handles the topic well beginning with Jesus' announcement of the year of Jubilee in the beginning of his ministry and then quoting other notables on the subject as E. Stanley Jones and Mark VanSteenwyk and exemplifies such groups as the Catholic Workers Movement.
"Restore" is the title of chapter 7 which brings us face to face with two views of salvation: (a) evangelical "personal salvation" that confines itself to getting others and oneself into heaven, and (b) revangelical salvation that goes beyond "personal salvation" to bring restoration to our society and neighborhoods to help, as the author states, "level the playing field".
Chapter 8, "Reunite", brings up the challenge of resisting evil and being active peacemakers wherever the need is found.
The final chapter, "Reposition", challenges the reader to not just believe the gospel of Jesus but to also obey it by doing it. The author's definition of a revangelical can also be found in the closing chapter when he writes,
"Laura Hairston is a revangelical. She is a Jesus follower who doesn't just point to weekly church attendance as proof of her devotion to him. She has personalized the call to go into all the world with the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven, and she is convinced that `the world' begins in her subdivision. Laura's middle-school group is only one of many pieces the Lord has used in what has now become a church, started by the Hairstons out of their home."
Revangelical is a very readable book with lots of stories and examples to keep the reader engaged. But it is also a very quotable book with lots of footnotes and documentation that could easily add some punch to sermons, speeches or lessons.
The weakest part of the book for me personally was the chapter on peacemaking. It leaned toward proof-texting without a lot of application. It seemed the author felt the need to write about this aspect of revangelicalism but did not have much experience in it himself. But to his credit he wisely kept the chapter short rather than go on about a topic that he seems less familiar with. It is, however, a topic that the Missional movement as a whole will need to address more radicially in the future.
While this book has plenty of Scripture quotes it is not too heavy on theology. Instead, it's geared more toward practicality. The questions at the end of each chapter are a nice addition. It would make a great book for a Sunday School class, Bible study, house church gathering, or personal reading and reflection. It may also serve well as an introduction to the Missional church movement as a whole.
For those who are interested in learning more about the book before purchasing it check out the author's videos at http://www.revangelicalbook.com/#!take-action/c6kj
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