Reaching a new generation : strategies for tomorrow's church

Summary: "Our world has changed dramatically in the past quarter century. People are losing faith in technology. Our society has lost consensus and is dividing into competing tribes. There are "new realities" and new values. We are passing into an unprecedented situation with few familiar landmarks to guide us. In Reaching a New Generation, a working pastor and professor innovatively responds to our changed North American society - itself now a vast mission field. Above all, Alan Roxburgh thinks, people today yearn for community, want to save the earth from ecological destruction, and thirst for an experience of spiritual reality. Rather than simply condemning these new values, Roxburgh calls the church to respond with Christian community, Christian ecology and Christian spirituality. This fresh and powerful book shows what our new world is like and how the gospel is yet again relevant and redemptive"--Back cover.

Table of Contents: Introduction: The Big Carrot -- 1. Change, Growth, Challenge -- 2. Making the World a Better Place -- 3. A Worldview Is Rejected -- 4. The Church and Shifting Worldviews -- 5. How Will the Gospel Be Heard? -- 6. Ecology: Mind and Nature on a New Frontier -- 7. Community: Making the World Whole Again -- 8. The New Spirituality: Quest for Transcendence -- Epilogue: Evangelism in a Time of Change.