2010-08-09T16:33:10-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/christendom/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1508 2010-08-09T16:33:10-05:00 Perhaps the biggest challenge to the western church today is the shift in the last 10+ years to a post-Christian context. And people are just not that much into us any more. Alan Hirsch is one of the key leaders helping us to understand this changing context and change our ministry approaches. http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/shaping-of-things-to-come.php 2010-08-07T15:38:43-05:00 The message of Frost and Hirsch is vital for the 21st century church. In essence it is this: we in the West no longer live in Christendom – societies that have a broadly Christian worldview. Instead, we are in the same situation that most missionaries encounter in a non-Christian culture. http://lausanneworldpulse.com/perspectives.php/152/12-2005 2008-03-26T11:54:51-05:00 European Evangelical leaders were challenged to live out their "true identities" as "Christian nobodies" by becoming God's catalysts for change.