The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner!

The future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long been held captive by its predominantly white cultural identity and history.

In this book professor and pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. Many white churches are in crisis and ill-equipped to minister to new cultural realities, but immigrant, ethnic and multiethnic churches are succeeding and flourishing.

This prophetic report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century. Spiritual renewal is happening within the North American church, from corners and margins not always noticed by those in the center. Come, discover the vitality of the next evangelicalism.

• Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
• Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
• Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
• Prophesy Deliverance!
• Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition
• Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right
• Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation
• Building a Discipling Culture: Third Edition
• Church Transfusion: Changing Your Church Organically--From the Inside Out (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series Book 63)