Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst

Are you tired of reading another news story about Christians supposedly acting at their worst?Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of the Christian faith as hypocritical, self-interested, and politically co-opted. What has happened in our society? One short outrageous video, whether it is true or not, can trigger an avalanche of comments on social media.Welcome to the new age of outrage.In this groundbreaking book featuring new survey research of evangelicals and their relationship to the age of outrage, Ed Stetzer offers a constructive way forward. You won?t want to miss Ed?s insightful analysis of our chaotic age, his commonsensical understanding of the cultural currents, and his compelling challenge to Christians to live in a refreshingly different way. Review ?Once again, Ed has analyzed a troublesome trend in our culture and given us solid advice on how to respond to it in a Christlike manner. If you?ve ever wondered how we can share the love of Jesus in the midst of all the shouting and division, you need to read this book immediately.?Rick Warren, Senior pastor, Saddleback Church; author of The Purpose Driven Life?Sometimes it seems that everyone is angry today. Division and strife are everywhere. InChristians in the Age of Outrage, Ed Stetzer lays out the problems in the culture and in the church, but then gives us a God-honoring path to bring our best even when the world is at its worst.?Bryan Loritts, Author of Insider, Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All?From political campaigns to nightly news, from clickbait headlines to social media, we exist in such a perpetual state of outrage that escape seems impossible. But with thorough research, compelling anecdotes, and clarity of both vision and communication, Ed Stetzer offers a way out that is not only possible but?for the Christian?imperative.?Karen Swallow Prior, Author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books?It?s an angry world right now, and we need a grace-filled and gospel-driven response. My friend Ed Stetzer shows us how to walk through the minefields of disagreement in winsome and God-honoring ways.?Samuel Rodriguez, President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference From the Back Cover Why This Outrageous Book?This book is about outrage. Our world seems awash in anger, division, and hostility. We need to decide how to respond. This is indeed our moment to learn how to live like Christ amid the shouting, anger, and hatred.To be sure, there is a lot in this world that is outrage inducing?terrorism, sex trafficking and exploitation, systemic racism, the opioid crisis . . . the list goes on.But this is part of the problem. How do we know when righteous anger has made the turn into unbridled outrage? These questions do not have easy answers.That?s why I wrote this book: to help Christians think through the unique challenges of this age. I?m encouraged because I?ve witnessed so many Christians bringing their best to build the Kingdom of God.The age of outrage cannot?and will not?distract us from what is true.?Ed StetzerEd Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism and is the dean of the School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership at Wheaton College, where he also serves as executive director of the Billy Graham Center. Stetzer has two earned doctorates and two master?s degrees, and has written or cowritten more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles. He is a contributing editor forChristianity Today, the cohost forBreakPoint This Week, and the general editor of The Gospel Project, a Bible study curriculum used by more than one million people each week.