The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilisation faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity?
What is needed is followers of Christ who are willing to face reality without flinching and respond with a faithfulness that is unwavering. Os Guinness describes these Christians as "impossible people"? - those who have "faces like flint and backbones of steel who are unmanipulable, unbribable, undeterrable and unclubbable, without ever losing the gentleness, the mercy, the grace and the compassion of our Lord." Christians are called to be impossible people, serving an impossible God.
"Every time I sit down to read the prophetic words of Os Guinness, I feel my spine strengthen and my mind perk up. His clear writing and earned wisdom bring both courage and uncertainty; for while we can't predict where our culture will head, we can rely on the truth that guides and emboldens every generation..."
- Gabe Lyons, Author of Good Faith
Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization is in the following collections:
