Kevin Nye - Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness

Drawing on years of experience in homelessness services and relationships built with the unhoused people he has met along the way, Kevin Nye skillfully walks readers through the complex issues that surround homelessness while casting a powerful theological vision that calls us to shelter all Gods people through hope and faithful action. Personal and prophetic, practical and powerful, Grace Can Lead Us Home is desperately needed, breathing love and new life into a grace-filled response to the housing and homelessness crisis.

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis , senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church and author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World

By drawing readers back to the biblical vision of justice, Kevin Nye gives us a new lens for seeing our unhoused neighbors. He breaks open common myths about the causes of homelessness and challenges attitudes in the church that essentially blame people for their trauma. Instead, Nye articulates as well as lives out neighbor-love that is less about us and them and more about we, who are equally in need of grace. This vision isnt just about addressing homelessness but also about remembering our humanity.

Katelyn Beaty , editor and author of Celebrities for Jesus

I am so glad this book exists because as Christians we worship a homeless Savior yet when we encounter people experiencing homelessness, our response often lands somewhere between indifference and outright rejection. This is not the way of Jesus. In Grace Can Lead Us Home, Kevin Nye challenges us to rethink what it means to be the people of God in and for the world, particularly in how we practically go about loving and serving our neighbors in need. If your heart breaks every time you walk by someone sleeping on the sidewalk but you dont know how to be Christ to them, this is the book for you.

Zack Hunt , author of Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong

My best friends father was unhoused for years. She would visit him in a tent off the side of a highway. Kevin Nye will help you see that unhoused people are fathers, and mothers, and family members, and friends. They are human beings worthy of our attention and deserving of dignity. Grace Can Lead Us Home is a book about love, compassion, and the value of humanity.

Heather Thompson Day , author of Its Not Your Turn

In Grace Can Lead Us Home, Kevin Nye partakes in the sacred work of rehumanization. In illustrating some realities of our neighbors experiencing homelessness, he shows us where we might find Jesus. In showing us how we might overcome this reality, he shows us how we might embody Jesus.

R. G. A. Trey Ferguson III , founding president of RFX Ministries, director of equipping at Refuge Church Miami, and cohost of Three Black Men podcast

This timely, moving, well-researched book is an exploration of the stunning injustice of mass homelessness in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. What is so astounding is not only that so much human suffering exists, but that weChristianshave allowed it to endure for so long. These pages contain a call to compassion, community, and justice. They implore us to reexamine our preconceived notions and to transform our hearts, minds, and world.

Lindsey Krinks , author of Praying with Our Feet

In exploring the grace of perhaps the most famous person in history to experience homelessness, Jesus Christ, Kevin Nye reveals the Christ in the millions of people experiencing homelessness in the world today. In doing so, Nye follows the call of God by proposing a bold but necessary plea: to end homelessness.

Mason Mennenga , YouTuber and host of A Peoples Theology podcast

Herald Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nye, Kevin, author.

Title: Grace can lead us home : a Christian call to end homelessness / Kevin Nye.

Description: Harrisonburg, Virginia : Herald Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022010441 (print) | LCCN 2022010442 (ebook) | ISBN 9781513810515 (paper) | ISBN 9781513810522 (h/c) | ISBN 9781513809823 (audiobook) | ISBN 9781513810539 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Church work with the homeless. | HomelessnessReligious aspectsChristianity. | BISAC: RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity

Classification: LCC BV4456 .N94 2022 (print) | LCC BV4456 (ebook) | DDC 261.8/325dc23/eng/20220318

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022010441

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022010442

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GRACE CAN LEAD US HOME

2022 by Kevin Nye, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22803. 800-245-7894.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022010441

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-5138-1051-5 (paperback); 978-1-5138-1052-2 (hardcover); 978-1-5138-1053-9 (ebook); 978-1-5138-0982-3 (audiobook)

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Cover and interior design by Merrill Miller

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