Impossible People, Os Guinness
Impossible People, Os Guinness
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Impossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

Author: Os Guinness

Narrator: Os Guinness

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2016

Synopsis

The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever, Christians must resist the negative cultural forces of our day with fortitude and winsomeness. What is needed is followers of Christ who are willing to face reality without flinching and respond with a faithfulness that is unwavering. Os Guinness describes these Christians as "impossible people," those who have "hearts that can melt with compassion, but with faces like flint and backbones of steel who are unmanipulable, unbribable, undeterrable and unclubbable, without ever losing the gentleness, the mercy, the grace and the compassion of our Lord." Few accounts of the challenge of today are more realistic, and few calls to Christian courage are more timely, resolute?and hopeful. Guinness argues that we must engage secularism and atheism in new ways, confronting competing ideas with discernment and fresh articulation of the faith. Christians are called to be impossible people, serving an Impossible God.

About Os Guinness

Os Guinness is an author and speaker living in the Washington, D.C., area. Born in China during World War II, Guinness left in 1951, after the Chinese Revolution. A graduate of the University of London and Oxford, Guinness is a former visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including The Call, Invitation to the Classics, and Long Journey Home. A frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Guinness has lectured at many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford, and has often spoken on Capitol Hill.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Curby on October 19, 2016

One of the finest works on the state of Christianity I have ever read. Guinness is a prophet for out time. A must read for any serious Christian who wants to understand the times were are living in and how to approach the future.......more

Goodreads review by Bob on July 03, 2017

Summary: Delineating the advance of modernity and its negative consequences, Guinness calls upon Christians to be the "impossible people" who both resist and positively engage the culture to "serve God's purposes in this generation." I've been reading the work of Os Guinness since my student days whe......more

Goodreads review by Jan on November 02, 2018

Os Guinness is always worth reading. His review of what is happening in society and its impact on Christianity is thought provoking and insightful.......more

Goodreads review by J.D. on July 25, 2018

An interesting book. He has, to my mind, an unecessary emphasis on the church accepting the reality of demons and angels in the modern world. While they are certainly around, I feel like encouraging the church to talk more about them could lead to irrational and emotional responses. But his overall......more

Goodreads review by Allison on November 30, 2018

maybe 3.5 rating - Reads like an essay for the most part and at times seems a little like a "know-it-all" at times. And pet peeve, but he overused the word "titanic" as a description and it got annoying. I thought it was a well-written book and he makes a number of true, good points, but it wasn't n......more

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