Nov
18
2008
Reinvisioning The Gap Between Christ And Culture
I swear we didn’t plan this (we just met, actually), but my friend Kary Oberbrunner has written a book entitled The Fine Line (coming in January) that seems to parallel my forthcoming book, Unfashionable, in some remarkable ways (scroll down the Amazon link and see that even Amazon thinks these books belong together!).
Kary writes:
Our difference from the world, not our similarity to it sets us apart. But even though Christ followers are called to be different, we’re also called to transform the world. Here lies the tension. We can’t be so far removed from the world that we lose contact, and we can’t be so much like the world that we’re no different from it…
Geez, that sounds familiar. The subtitle of Unfashionable is “making a difference in the world by being different.” It seems like God has lit the same fire in Kary that he has in me (and many others): helping a new generation understand what it means to be “in the world, but not of it” in these challenging, but opportune days.
You can pre-order Kary’s book here. And watch a video trailer of it here (I wish I would have thought of this!).
You can also read a sample here (Kary’s a great writer!).