Gabe Lyons is the author of The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America and the founder of Q---a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. Additionally, he is the coauthor of UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity and Why It Matters, a bestselling book based on original research that revealed the pervasiveness of pop culture's negative perceptions of Christians. Prior to launching Q (www.Qideas.org), Gabe co-founded Catalyst, a national gathering of young leaders. His work represents the perspectives of a new generation of Christians and has been featured by CNN, The New York Times, and USA Today. Gabe, his wife, Rebekah, and their three children reside in Manhattan, New York
Praise for The Next Christians and Gabe Lyons
“Gabe Lyons leads an important group of younger Christians who are
seeking to avoid both the triumphalism as well as the cultural
withdrawal of former generations of believers. We all have a long
way to go as we think out how Christ relates to culture in our day.
As we do so, we would do well to consider many of the significant
insights that Gabe offers in this book.”
—Tim Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City
“The Next Christians is a revolution tightly packaged within a
book. As a pastor, it was game changing for me and the people of my
church…every person should read it. This is the future!”
—John Ortberg, best-selling author and pastor of Menlo Park
Presbyterian Church
“Gabe Lyons is one of the brightest young Christian leaders I’ve
worked with and mentored. I’ve challenged his thinking; he has
challenged mine—as he does again with his latest book, The Next
Christians. I recommend this book, which will give you great
insight into the hopes and aspirations of the next generation of
Christian leaders.”
—Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center
for Christian Worldview
“If I had to pick one leader for the next generation for
Christians, it would be Gabe Lyons. If I had to pick one chapter
from this book, it would be ‘Relearning Restoration.’ If I had to
pick one sentence it would be this one: Christ didn’t come only to
save us ‘ from something. He wanted to save Christians to
something.’ Gabe Lyons gets it: restoration is the vision for the
Next Christians, and I’m cheering them on.”
—Scot McKnight, New Testament scholar and author of The Jesus
Creed
“The Next Christians is the best book you’ll read this year. Filled
with stories of hope and grace, it’s a passionate call to join
followers of Jesus everywhere in restoring the faith. You can’t
afford to miss it!”
—Margaret Feinberg, author of Scouting the Divine and The Organic
God
“At a time when a central challenge to faith is to be both faithful
and fresh, Gabe Lyons’s is a voice I always listen to and benefi t
from enormously.”
—Os Guinness, cultural historian and author of The Last Christian
on Earth
“It seems an impossible task: restore a 2,000-year-old religion so
that it no longer rejects, no longer chases, but actually leads a
modern, pluralistic culture running at the speed of Twitter. Gabe
Lyons offers hope for Christianity’s next one hundred years by
profiling the next set of Christians transcending this epic
challenge. I found his preview of Christian innovators inspiring
post-Christian America persuasive and one of the most encouraging
views of Christian faith in recent years.”
—Kevin Kelly, cofounder of Wired magazine
“The Next Christians is a must-read for anyone seeking to engage a
broken world with the healing power of the Gospel. Provocative, yet
massively optimistic, Gabe Lyons’s message challenges the
‘Christianity vs. Culture’ paradigm of the recent past with the
hopeful template of ‘Christ as restorer of humanity,’ worked out
through a new breed of Jesus followers, who are unashamedly running
into the darkness—broken-yet-loved ambassadors for the One who
makes all things new.”
—Louie Giglio, pastor of Passion City Church and founder of the
Passion Movement
“What Lyons gives us here, in spades and with proof texts, is the
good news about the state of the Good News in tomorrow’s America.
Those who have despaired that even the label ‘Christian’ might be
tarnished beyond credibility, much less affection and influence,
will find a thousand reasons to rejoice here. Chock-full of
examples and stories, Lyons’s work also is full of brilliant
insights and piercing applications of traditional verbiage to new
ways of being in this world.”
—Phyllis Tickle, founding religion editor, Publishers Weekly
“We’re in an important time in Christianity. Leaders are
considering the Gospel, its implications, and how we might live
faithfully in the world we find ourselves. Gabe Lyons is an
important voice in that conversation. In The Next Christians, he
sets out a vision for Christians making a difference in the world.
You should read this book and wrestle with his ideas as we consider
together how we might be faithful to the Gospel in today’s
world.”
—Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research; coauthor of
Transformational Church
“The Next Christians is not about rehashing stale debates or
reliving the culture wars. It is not about empty ideologies or even
about branding a movement—it is about reading the Bible in one hand
and the newspaper in the other and listening to God say, ‘Come
change the world with me.’ ”
—Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and recovering sinner
“Gabe Lyons articulates a fresh and inspiring vision for bringing
Christian faith forward in the new cultural paradigm of
21st-century America. May this become the predominant expression of
Christianity for an up-and-coming generation of ‘next Christians’
and those of us who are counting on them.”
—Tom Krattenmaker, USA Today’s Board of Contributors and author of
Onward Christian Athletes
“Gabe Lyons is a contemporary innovator who possesses relevant
insight and profound foresight relative to Christ, culture, and the
next generation of Christians. This must read book will inspire you
and guide you to a new place of purposeful passion!”
—Charles Jenkins, senior pastor, Fellowship Missionary Baptist
Church
“The prophet Isaiah declared that God would do a new thing. In The
Next Christians, Gabe Lyons frames the narrative of a new Christian
movement emerging in our lifetime. While addressing the challenges
before us, Gabe presents the facilitative platform for the
followers of Jesus to reconcile righteousness with justice under a
canopy of compassion and love. This book will challenge us to
embrace change as we welcome a fresh move of God’s Spirit.”
—Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian
Leadership Conference
“The Lord has given a great mind and incredible wisdom to Gabe
Lyons to be able to speak with such clarity and such understanding
of the times. You will be greatly blessed and will desire to turn
the next page, only to come to the end and then wish to pass this
book along to a good friend so that others can be as informed as
you are.”
—Pastor Johnny Hunt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention
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