This Is Our Time
Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Uncertain. Confused. Overwhelmed.
Many Christians feel bombarded by the messages they hear and the trends they see in our rapidly changing world.
How can we resist being conformed to the pattern of this world? What will faithfulness to Christ look like in these tumultuous times? How can we be true to the gospel in a world where myths and false visions of the world so often prevail?
In This is Our Time, Trevin Wax provides snapshots of twenty-first-century American Life in order to help Christians understand the times. By analyzing our common beliefs and practices (smartphone habits, entertainment intake, and our views of shopping, sex, marriage, politics, and life’s purpose), Trevin helps us see through the myths of society to the hope of the gospel.
As faithful witnesses to Christ, Trevin writes, we must identify the longing behind society’s most cherished myths (what is good, true, beautiful), expose the lie at the heart of these myths (what is false and damaging), and show how the gospel tells a better story – one that exposes the lie but satisfies the deeper longing.
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Wax, the Bible and reference publisher at LifeWay Christian Resources and managing editor of the Gospel Project, attempts to translate Christian faith and morals into language and symbols that 21st-century readers can appreciate. The Christian faith survives in large part, he writes, because it is continually being reinterpreted so that new generations can appreciate its beauty and meaning. In many respects Wax succeeds in carrying on this tradition, as when he tackles the challenges that modern technology imposes on daily life and when he critiques the pervasive consumerism of American culture. He is direct and persuasive in his arguments, and (as a millennial) exhibits an understanding of popular culture that helps him to explain current trends about the commodification of social relations from an objective viewpoint. At times his tone becomes preachy and borders on fundamentalist, as in the discussion of marriage and sexuality. For the most part, however, Wax is compelling as he pleads with readers to understand faith and religion not as a completely private enterprises but as living, animating forces. His work will appeal to many persons of faith, especially evangelicals who are navigating through the murky waters of the modern age.
