McKinley - Faith for This Moment: Navigating a Polarized World As the People of God

For twenty years Ive had the privilege of being friends with Rick McKinley, one of our countrys greatest pastors. In the current chaos of this experiment called American democracy, Rick offers some of his best wisdom on how to speak truth in love, how to be prophetic and pastoral, and how to challenge evil without becoming evil. We need this book now more than ever.

Shane Claiborne , founder, The Simple Way; convener, Red Letter Christians; activist; author, Beating Guns

Apart from the Civil War in the nineteenth century and the Civil Rights movement of the sixties, its hard to name a time when America has been so anxious and divided... and the church is leading the charge. In this timely book, Rick helps us discern the spirit of the age and faithfully negotiate an increasingly jingoistic, angry, and divisive social context.

Alan Hirsch , award-winning author of numerous books on leadership, organization, and spirituality

Faith for This Moment will challenge and equip you as we seek to live like Jesusfor such a time as this. Boldly questioning what it means to be the people of God right nowRicks words will light a fire in your soul. Quite simply: we cannot afford to miss this book.

Ann Voskamp , New York Times bestselling author, The Broken Way and One Thousand Gifts

There can be few messages more urgent and exciting in our world today than the fact that Jesus Christ is in the business of reconciliation. Im so grateful to Rick McKinley for distilling decades of experience as a pioneering pastor in one of the least-churched cities in America into this timely book. With his usual blend of intelligence and warmth, he offers us a reason and a way to live with greater hope, grace, and beauty.

Pete Greig , founder, 24-7 Prayer International; senior pastor, Emmaus Rd, Guildford, UK

In Faith for This Moment , Rick prophetically and practically calls us back to Church. To be it, to love it, and to extend it to a world that is asking us to show them Jesus without all the religious trappings.

Hugh Halter , author, Tangible Kingdom , FLESH , and Happy Hour

In Faith for This Moment , the caricature that has become known as Christianity is stripped away to reveal what it means to follow Jesus faithfully in this cultural moment. Rick encourages followers of Jesus to return to our deepest identitychildren of Godand live as an alternative community in the midst of world that is as polarized as ever. If this is what being a Christian looks like in the future, then the world will take note.

AJ Swoboda , PhD; pastor; author, Subversive Sabbath and Redeeming How We Talk

Brilliantly insightful and yet delivered with pastoral care. Faith for This Moment not only pinpoints the cultural tensions we all feel but gives us a hope-filled biblical framework to faithfully walk forward as Christians. This book is a huge win for the church today.

Chuck Bomar , pastor, Colossae Church in Portland, OR; author, Serving Local Schools: Bring Christ s Compassion to the Core of YourCommunity

In our polarized culture, how are we to live faithfully to Jesus? Faith for This Moment reclaims exile as a powerful biblical theme, one that moves us beyond attempts to baptize the culture or burn it. Instead, McKinley offers constructive practices, rhythms of grace as he calls them, that make us a distinct people who bear a beauty that blesses the world, the marks of our coming King.

Joshua Ryan Butler , pastor, Imago Dei Community; author, The Pursuing God and The Skeletons in God s Closet

Faith for This Moment is a title that captures the heart-cry of many who are dizzy and confused about how to live an authentic Christian life in the midst of a rapidly changing and multifaceted world. In this short, accessible book, Rick McKinley does what he does best by replacing formula with faith and calling believers to radical discipleship rather than retreat. For anyone looking for a book that both names the unique cultural experience of Christians today while also providing honest biblical ways forward, this book will be like water to your soul.

Ken Wytsma , lead pastor, Village in Beaverton, Oregon; author, The Myth of Equality and Redeeming How We Talk

Faith for This Moment is a book for this moment. In our world today, Christians are often categorized by cultural- and agenda-based forms of Christianity. Rick guides us back to Scripturally based vintage Christianity, and you will find yourself being encouraged, feeling like you arent alone, and inspired to make a difference again for Jesus in our world. Every day it feels more embarrassing and confusing to say you are a Christian in todays world. Instead of having to either compromise truth or hiding our faith, Rick McKinley guides us into bold confidence of how to live out our faith more than ever in our towns and cities. If you are a Christian and you dont fit the cultural categories that are lately defining us, Faith for This Moment will be fresh wind for your heart and soul.

Dan Kimball , mission and leadership pastor, Vintage Faith Church; author, Adventures in Churchland: Finding Jesus in the Mess of Organized Religion and They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations

The church exists today in a cultural flux of unfamiliar change and transition. The strangeness of the moment can leave churches and followers of Jesus scratching their heads and searching their souls in an effort to figure out what to do. In this book Rick shows us that this new space is not so newpeople of faith have passed this way before. He masterfully shows us how we can use classical practices, with Gods help, to be the Jesuss church in todays culture. His book is a much-needed compass.