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Being the Bad Guys ebook

How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn't

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About this book

The church used to be recognised as a force for good, but this is changing rapidly. Christians are now often seen as the bad guys, losing both respect and influence.

In our post-Christian culture, how do we offer the gospel to those around us who view it as not only wrong but possibly dangerous? And how do we ensure that the secular worldview does not entice us away with its constant barrage, online and elsewhere, of messages about self-determinism?

Author Stephen McAlpine offers an analysis of how our culture ended up this way and explains key points of tension between biblical Christianity and secular culture.

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Specifications

Contributors:
Stephen McAlpine
ISBN:
9781784985912
Format:
eBook
First published:
February 2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Good Book Company

Contents

Part One: How Did We Get to Be the Bad Guy?
1. Why This Sudden Hostility?
2. Why the Surprise?

Part Two: What Does Being the Bad Guy Look Like?
3. Binary Beige vs. Diverse Rainbows
4. Loud Power vs. Voiceless Victims
5. Self-Denial vs. Self-Actualisation

Part Three: Being the Best Bad Guy You Can Be
6. Don't Renovate the Wrong House
7. Faithful, Faultless and Fearless
8. The City and the City

Endorsements

This is a must-read for anyone grappling to understand the staggering changes in our society as all the old certainties—and notions of how we relate to each other—are suddenly swept out to sea and replaced by a strident new authoritism that seeks to drown out all dissent. McAlpine is deeply perceptive and writes with the simple clarity that only a master of complex issues can provide. At last we can find a neat and accessible explanation of what is happening in our culture.

John Anderson Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

With piercing insight, McAlpine skilfully draws parallels between the battles we face today in our culture and familiar Bible stories, impelling us to stand up courageously for the truth of the gospel against a tide of opposition. Through this book I have been forewarned and forearmed by the gospel, which he applies in a clear, radical, inspiring and relevant way. A timely wake-up call that has already proved invaluable in my personal witness.

Linda Allcock Author, Deeper Still

Stephen McAlpine has written a book that we desperately need. It’s searching, sane, deeply biblical and, best of all, profoundly encouraging. If you want to understand what’s going on in our world right now, then you need to read this book. If you want to work out what it means to live faithfully at school, at university, at work and even at home, then you need to read this book. If you have ever felt like the ‘bad guy’, then you really do need to read this book. Perhaps I haven’t been clear enough: I think everyone needs to read this book!

Gary Millar Principal, Queensland Theological College, Australia; author of Saving Eutychus

Customer Reviews

4.00 stars Knowing where we are in Western culture

 

Worth reading just for the first two chapters. The premise of the book is spot on for Christians in the West. The 'solutions' are a bit generic. The real strength of the book is helping us realise where we are.

5.00 stars Being the Bad Guys

 

(Review written for 'Being the Bad Guys')

To say I enjoyed this book is not really accurate. I appreciated it and was daunted challenged and the ultimately encouraged by it. Daunted by the fairly bleak outlook on non-believing society; challenged by the need to respond more to the call of the gospel, but ultimately encouraged by the thought from the Bible that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
A book that is almost surely a must read for all evangelically based Christians.

5.00 stars Excellent and timely book

 

(Review written for 'Being the Bad Guys')

This is an excellent book. It addresses the culture wars we find ourselves in and then looks at how a follower of Jesus should respond. From my perspective the book asks the right questions and points in the right direction for answers. There are questions posed that are (unfortunately) not answered, and some that might even be answered incorrectly. But the focus and emphasis are good, positive and (I believe) correct. This is a book that I would like anyone who claims to follow Jesus to read.

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