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The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience:

Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?
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Baker Books, Feb 1, 2005 - Religion - 144 pages
Ron Sider asserts that "by their daily activity, most 'Christians' regularly commit treason. With their mouths they claim that Jesus is their Lord, but with their actions they demonstrate their allegiance to money, sex, and personal self-fulfillment."
In this candid and challenging book, Sider addresses an embarrassing reality: most Christians' lives are no different from the lives of their secular neighbors. Hedonism, materialism, racism, egotism, and many other undesirable traits are commonplace among Christians.
Rather than simply a book bemoaning the state of American Christianity today, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience offers readers solutions to repair the disconnect between belief and practice. While it's not easy medicine to take, this book is a much-needed prophetic call to transformed living.
  

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Review: The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?

User Review  - Thom Dunn - Goodreads

The author wants Evangelical Christians to return to the original model: smaller close-knit groups striving to grow more like Christ and so bring in the kingdom of God. Clear, lucid, developed with ... Read full review

Review: The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?

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A good book. I'm not a huge fan of using statistics to build an argument, but I guess you need to start somewhere, and it provides the premise that things are not right in the evangelical tradition ...

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Contents

Acknowledgments
9
The Depth of the Scandal
17
The Biblical Vision
31
Cheap Grace vs the Whole Gospel
55
Conforming to Culture or Being the Church
85
Rays of Hope
121
Notes
133
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Ronald J. Sider is president of Evangelicals for Social Action and professor of theology, holistic ministry, and public policy at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The author of more than twenty books, he resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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