Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Plan to Change the World through Everyday People

Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Plan to Change the World through Everyday People

Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Plan to Change the World through Everyday People

Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Plan to Change the World through Everyday People

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Overview

It's easy to get discouraged by the headlines. It can often feel as if God has left the building, like we are on our own. We want to believe God's promises to us, and we search for signs of his continuing restoration of the world in which we live. Now, with passion and heart, two leading experts on Christianity and culture cut through the chaos and uncertainty to show readers how God is powerfully active and intensely engaged in fulfilling his promise to restore all things unto himself. Through inspiring real-life stories of justice, mercy, love, and forgiveness in our midst, Smith and Stonestreet present a God who is intimately involved in his creation and using his church to work out the redemption of this world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801000300
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/05/2015
Pages: 236
Sales rank: 1,065,558
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Warren Cole Smith is the vice president of WORLD News Group, publisher of WORLD magazine, and producer of the nationally syndicated radio programs The World and Everything in It and Listening In, a weekly interview program he also hosts. He has written, cowritten, or edited more than ten books, including A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church and Prodigal Press: Confronting the Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media. He lives in Charlotte,
North Carolina.


John Stonestreet
is a speaker and fellow with the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and a sought-after communicator and thought leader on faith and culture, theology, worldview, education, and apologetics. He is the voice of two nationally syndicated radio commentaries: BreakPoint (with Eric Metaxas) and The Point. John is the coauthor of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview and Same-Sex Marriage: A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage. He and his wife and three daughters live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Jim Daly, Focus on the Family 11

Acknowledgments 13

Introduction: God Loveth "Re" Words 17

Words like restore, renew, refresh, resurrect, and redeem are found throughout Scripture. It is time for the church to relearn them

1 Great News! 27

The church is alive and well, and is at work in the world

2 Helping That Helps 37

Not all help is helpful, and the Christian church has learned much it can teach the world about caring for the poor

3 Capitalism for the Common Good 56

God is a worker, and we are created in His image. Therefore our work, when rightly understood and engaged, can bring good to the world

4 This Will Stop in Our Lifetime 67

Christians across America and around the world have heroically saved babies and helped women by offering compassionate alternatives to abortion

5 Women at the Well 80

Christians have led the way in rescuing women and girls from prostitution and human trafficking

6 Coloring Outside the Lines 90

Throughout history, Christians have championed education and education reform.

7 Justice That Restores 102

Societies struggle with how to handle those convicted of crime. Christians are leading the way in returning restored citizens to our communities

8 Forgiveness Heals, Time Doesn't 114

"Racial reconciliation" must be more than a buzz phrase. Many churches are taking it seriously and offering strategies for healing and progress

9 Loving God with All Your Mind 124

Confronting ideological intolerance, Christian professors are refusing to choose between their faith and their scholarship

10 It Doesn't Define You 135

Christians are living proof that one's sexuality isn't their deepest identity

11 Not the Least of These 148

Through a heroic perseverance, and strong faith, Christians can show the world how to handle suffering and disability

12 Giving Marriage to the World, Once Again 162

Christians are, once again, offering the good gift of marriage as a healing institution to a sexually exhausted culture

13 Suffer the Little Children 174

Christians have proclaimed the dignity of all life by taking seriously the exhortation in James to care for orphans

14 In the Beginning, God Created 183

God is a Creator, and we are made to create too. For centuries, Christians led the way in the arts. Some modern Christians are leading the way again

15 Aim Small, Miss Small 196

A mentor of ours once said, "If you want to change the world, start by cleaning your room."

Conclusion: Two Personal Stories 203

John and Warren both recount personal stories that demonstrate how restoration became a reality in their lives

Notes 209

Bibliography 221

Index 227

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