Inalienable, Daniel Yang
Inalienable, Daniel Yang
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Inalienable
How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church

Author: Daniel Yang, Eric Costanzo, Matthew Soerens

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been compromised, our numbers are down, and our reputation has been sullied, due largely to our own faults and fears. The church's ethnocentrism, consumerism, and syncretism have blurred the lines between discipleship and partisanship.

Pastor Eric Costanzo, missiologist Daniel Yang, and nonprofit leader Matthew Soerens find that for the church to return to health, we must decenter ourselves from our American idols and recenter on the undeniable, inalienable core reality of the global, transcultural kingdom of God. Our guides in this process are global Christians and the poor, who offer hope from the margins, and the ancient church, which survived through the ages amid temptations of power and corruption. Their witness points us to refocus on the kingdom of God, the image of God, the Word of God, and the mission of God.

The path to the future takes us away from ourselves in unlikely directions. By learning from the global church and marginalized voices, we can return to our roots of being kingdom-focused, loving our neighbor, and giving of ourselves in missional service to the world.

About Daniel Yang

Daniel Yang is the National Director of Churches of Welcome for World Relief. Prior to that, he was the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. He has planted churches in Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, and Chicago, either as the lead planter or through recruiting, training, assessing, and mentoring church planters. Daniel is a sought-after conference speaker, missional strategist, and consultant.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: The three authors propose that voices from the margins and the kingdom-focused vision of service to the neighbor, even the most needy, may be the voices that bring renewal to the American church. It seems that a favorite current topic is the parlous state of the American church, at least the......more

Goodreads review by B.J.

A little over a year ago I read After Evangelicalism. This book is everything that book could have been. Both books address the common concern that the Evangelical Church in the West (particularly the White Evangelical church in America) is in a crisis of its own making. In embracing an idolatrous n......more

Goodreads review by Hugh

The authors bring a fresh perspective to American Christian and especially Evangelical culture. The Evangelical Church is at a sort of crossroads and needs to diversify its leadership in terms of intellectual input in order to improve its function as a part of the global body of Christ. The book pro......more

Goodreads review by Clement

Every once in a while, a book comes along that is like a breathe of fresh air. Inalienable is like an emergency oxygen mask to resuscitate the Church. It hits hard like a defibrillator to deadened hearts. However, even more precious than simply being a hard-hitting wake up call is that Inalienable a......more