How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn't care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, believers encounter many people who don't so much doubt God as they are apathetic toward him. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation and demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors.
Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care
Paperback
|English
|1535991526
|
9781535991520
Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care
Paperback
|English
|1535991526
|
9781535991520
Overview
ISBN: 1535991526
ISBN13: 9781535991520
Author: Kyle Beshears
Publisher: B&H Academic
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2021-03-15
Language: English
PageCount: 140
Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9.0
inches
Weight:
7.2 ounces
Description
How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn't care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, believers encounter many people who don't so much doubt God as they are apathetic toward him. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation and demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors.
Editorial Reviews
"Kyle Beshears has written, to my knowledge, the first full-length treatment of sharing our Christian faith with our apatheistic neighbors: those who simply do not care about questions of God, life, the universe, and everything. Beshears understands the cultural influences driving religious unconcern, and he provides helpful and practical suggestions for engaging lovingly and productively with non-religious friends. If you want to understand and impact our post-Christian age, I highly recommend this excellent volume."
--Tawa Anderson, associate professor of philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University "We've been trained to share the gospel with adherents of other religions. We've been trained to share the gospel with people who viscerally oppose Christianity. But what about that vast middle of folks who . . . just don't care? As people live their lives unaware of their dire spiritual state, evangelism to the uninterested is perhaps our greatest challenge. Apatheism is the book you need to reach a world that doesn't seem to care. With painstaking scriptural focus and a heart full of compassion for the lost, Beshears lays out an approach that is both biblical and wise. If you care about the people who don't care, you need this book."
--Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications, National Religious Broadcasters, and pastor of teaching and discipleship, Green Hill Church, Mt. Juliet, TN "In a secular age, belief in God is not just contestable, but also uninteresting. There's a new virtue in town: apathy, especially when it comes to ultimate questions about God, meaning, and happiness. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears expertly diagnoses the root causes of this indifference toward the God question and provides a helpful model for sharing the good news of Jesus to the uninterested. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to effectively share the gospel with those who have lost touch with that deepest desire of every human heart for the pursuing love of God. "
--Paul M. Gould, associate professor of philosophy of religion and director of the MA in Philosophy of Religion program, Palm Beach Atlantic University "A wise pastor once told me the biggest problem we face as Christian leaders is not hostility but apathy. And that's the problem that Kyle Beshears helps us address in this important new book. It's not helpful for us to answer questions few bother to ask anymore. Beshears helps us stoke the latent desires of unbelievers to want to want to believe."
--Collin Hansen, editorial director, The Gospel Coalition "Twenty years ago, when I took my first steps into the field of apologetics, non-Christians sometimes misunderstood what I said and often despised the claims that I made--but no one ever said, 'I don't care whether these things are true or false.' But things have changed. Today, I hear some variation of this attitude over and over from high school and college students. It's not that these young people are vehemently anti-Christian; they simply don't care whether or not Christianity is true. Apologists in today's culture must have the capacity not only to respond to false claims about Christianity but also to engage with this growing sense of apathy toward faith. In Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care, Kyle Beshears provides a clear roadmap for sharing the gospel with those who claim that they aren't interested in whether or not the claims of Jesus are true."
--Timothy Paul Jones, vice president of doctoral studies and chair of apologetics, ethics, and philosophy, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "In the New Testament, we often read about unbelievers being hostile toward Christians and their faith, but in many places today, we aren't dealing so much with a 'hostility toward the gospel' problem (though that's increasing in places), but with a 'happy without the gospel' problem. How do we reach happy pagans--those who are apathetic toward belief in God? With the rise in secularism in the West, including here in the States, I am thrilled to have Beshears's Apatheism in print. He provides us with important truth to consider in order to be both faithful and effective in our witness, as we radiate a contagious joy in Christ, and as we reflect the love of our God before a broken world in need."
--Tony Merida, dean and professor of preaching and theology, Grimké Seminary; director of theological training, Acts 29; and pastor for preaching and vision, Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC "This book is for those who care to share with those who don't care. It's helpful for everyone to understand the religious, non-religious, and irreligious sentiments of our culture. Increasingly, vast numbers of people simply don't care about the question of God. You might remember the adage, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink.' But there are things we might do to make it want to drink, and that is in part what this book is about--how to get those apathetic to God to begin caring about the question of God and perhaps the gospel of Christ."
--Corey Miller, president and CEO, Ratio Christi campus apologetics alliance "'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest, ' says our Lord in Luke 10:2. That word for 'send' has often been explained to have a somewhat violent connotation, as if it must be done by force. Well, it has become clear to me that the Lord's method of answering this prayer in this age will mean waking and shaking potential harvesters from the sleep of apathy and preparing them for a harvest field where people are numbed by apathy. In Apatheism, Beshears helps us understand a prevailing mindset of the culture around us. This book helps us become better missionaries and better students of our culture, equipped to engage hearts and minds to see the need they don't know they have. This work is a gift!"
--Noah Oldham, senior director of deployment, Send Network, North American Mission Board, and lead pastor, August Gate Church, Belleville, IL
--Tawa Anderson, associate professor of philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University "We've been trained to share the gospel with adherents of other religions. We've been trained to share the gospel with people who viscerally oppose Christianity. But what about that vast middle of folks who . . . just don't care? As people live their lives unaware of their dire spiritual state, evangelism to the uninterested is perhaps our greatest challenge. Apatheism is the book you need to reach a world that doesn't seem to care. With painstaking scriptural focus and a heart full of compassion for the lost, Beshears lays out an approach that is both biblical and wise. If you care about the people who don't care, you need this book."
--Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications, National Religious Broadcasters, and pastor of teaching and discipleship, Green Hill Church, Mt. Juliet, TN "In a secular age, belief in God is not just contestable, but also uninteresting. There's a new virtue in town: apathy, especially when it comes to ultimate questions about God, meaning, and happiness. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears expertly diagnoses the root causes of this indifference toward the God question and provides a helpful model for sharing the good news of Jesus to the uninterested. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to effectively share the gospel with those who have lost touch with that deepest desire of every human heart for the pursuing love of God. "
--Paul M. Gould, associate professor of philosophy of religion and director of the MA in Philosophy of Religion program, Palm Beach Atlantic University "A wise pastor once told me the biggest problem we face as Christian leaders is not hostility but apathy. And that's the problem that Kyle Beshears helps us address in this important new book. It's not helpful for us to answer questions few bother to ask anymore. Beshears helps us stoke the latent desires of unbelievers to want to want to believe."
--Collin Hansen, editorial director, The Gospel Coalition "Twenty years ago, when I took my first steps into the field of apologetics, non-Christians sometimes misunderstood what I said and often despised the claims that I made--but no one ever said, 'I don't care whether these things are true or false.' But things have changed. Today, I hear some variation of this attitude over and over from high school and college students. It's not that these young people are vehemently anti-Christian; they simply don't care whether or not Christianity is true. Apologists in today's culture must have the capacity not only to respond to false claims about Christianity but also to engage with this growing sense of apathy toward faith. In Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care, Kyle Beshears provides a clear roadmap for sharing the gospel with those who claim that they aren't interested in whether or not the claims of Jesus are true."
--Timothy Paul Jones, vice president of doctoral studies and chair of apologetics, ethics, and philosophy, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "In the New Testament, we often read about unbelievers being hostile toward Christians and their faith, but in many places today, we aren't dealing so much with a 'hostility toward the gospel' problem (though that's increasing in places), but with a 'happy without the gospel' problem. How do we reach happy pagans--those who are apathetic toward belief in God? With the rise in secularism in the West, including here in the States, I am thrilled to have Beshears's Apatheism in print. He provides us with important truth to consider in order to be both faithful and effective in our witness, as we radiate a contagious joy in Christ, and as we reflect the love of our God before a broken world in need."
--Tony Merida, dean and professor of preaching and theology, Grimké Seminary; director of theological training, Acts 29; and pastor for preaching and vision, Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC "This book is for those who care to share with those who don't care. It's helpful for everyone to understand the religious, non-religious, and irreligious sentiments of our culture. Increasingly, vast numbers of people simply don't care about the question of God. You might remember the adage, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink.' But there are things we might do to make it want to drink, and that is in part what this book is about--how to get those apathetic to God to begin caring about the question of God and perhaps the gospel of Christ."
--Corey Miller, president and CEO, Ratio Christi campus apologetics alliance "'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest, ' says our Lord in Luke 10:2. That word for 'send' has often been explained to have a somewhat violent connotation, as if it must be done by force. Well, it has become clear to me that the Lord's method of answering this prayer in this age will mean waking and shaking potential harvesters from the sleep of apathy and preparing them for a harvest field where people are numbed by apathy. In Apatheism, Beshears helps us understand a prevailing mindset of the culture around us. This book helps us become better missionaries and better students of our culture, equipped to engage hearts and minds to see the need they don't know they have. This work is a gift!"
--Noah Oldham, senior director of deployment, Send Network, North American Mission Board, and lead pastor, August Gate Church, Belleville, IL
About the Author
Kyle Beshears (ThM, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a PhD candidate at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Church in Mobile, AL.
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Overview
How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn't care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, believers encounter many people who don't so much doubt God as they are apathetic toward him. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation and demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors.
ISBN: 1535991526
ISBN13: 9781535991520
Author: Kyle Beshears
Publisher: B&H Academic
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2021-03-15
Language: English
PageCount: 140
Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9.0
inches
Weight:
7.2 ounces
Description
How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn't care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, believers encounter many people who don't so much doubt God as they are apathetic toward him. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation and demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors.
Editorial Reviews
"Kyle Beshears has written, to my knowledge, the first full-length treatment of sharing our Christian faith with our apatheistic neighbors: those who simply do not care about questions of God, life, the universe, and everything. Beshears understands the cultural influences driving religious unconcern, and he provides helpful and practical suggestions for engaging lovingly and productively with non-religious friends. If you want to understand and impact our post-Christian age, I highly recommend this excellent volume."
--Tawa Anderson, associate professor of philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University "We've been trained to share the gospel with adherents of other religions. We've been trained to share the gospel with people who viscerally oppose Christianity. But what about that vast middle of folks who . . . just don't care? As people live their lives unaware of their dire spiritual state, evangelism to the uninterested is perhaps our greatest challenge. Apatheism is the book you need to reach a world that doesn't seem to care. With painstaking scriptural focus and a heart full of compassion for the lost, Beshears lays out an approach that is both biblical and wise. If you care about the people who don't care, you need this book."
--Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications, National Religious Broadcasters, and pastor of teaching and discipleship, Green Hill Church, Mt. Juliet, TN "In a secular age, belief in God is not just contestable, but also uninteresting. There's a new virtue in town: apathy, especially when it comes to ultimate questions about God, meaning, and happiness. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears expertly diagnoses the root causes of this indifference toward the God question and provides a helpful model for sharing the good news of Jesus to the uninterested. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to effectively share the gospel with those who have lost touch with that deepest desire of every human heart for the pursuing love of God. "
--Paul M. Gould, associate professor of philosophy of religion and director of the MA in Philosophy of Religion program, Palm Beach Atlantic University "A wise pastor once told me the biggest problem we face as Christian leaders is not hostility but apathy. And that's the problem that Kyle Beshears helps us address in this important new book. It's not helpful for us to answer questions few bother to ask anymore. Beshears helps us stoke the latent desires of unbelievers to want to want to believe."
--Collin Hansen, editorial director, The Gospel Coalition "Twenty years ago, when I took my first steps into the field of apologetics, non-Christians sometimes misunderstood what I said and often despised the claims that I made--but no one ever said, 'I don't care whether these things are true or false.' But things have changed. Today, I hear some variation of this attitude over and over from high school and college students. It's not that these young people are vehemently anti-Christian; they simply don't care whether or not Christianity is true. Apologists in today's culture must have the capacity not only to respond to false claims about Christianity but also to engage with this growing sense of apathy toward faith. In Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care, Kyle Beshears provides a clear roadmap for sharing the gospel with those who claim that they aren't interested in whether or not the claims of Jesus are true."
--Timothy Paul Jones, vice president of doctoral studies and chair of apologetics, ethics, and philosophy, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "In the New Testament, we often read about unbelievers being hostile toward Christians and their faith, but in many places today, we aren't dealing so much with a 'hostility toward the gospel' problem (though that's increasing in places), but with a 'happy without the gospel' problem. How do we reach happy pagans--those who are apathetic toward belief in God? With the rise in secularism in the West, including here in the States, I am thrilled to have Beshears's Apatheism in print. He provides us with important truth to consider in order to be both faithful and effective in our witness, as we radiate a contagious joy in Christ, and as we reflect the love of our God before a broken world in need."
--Tony Merida, dean and professor of preaching and theology, Grimké Seminary; director of theological training, Acts 29; and pastor for preaching and vision, Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC "This book is for those who care to share with those who don't care. It's helpful for everyone to understand the religious, non-religious, and irreligious sentiments of our culture. Increasingly, vast numbers of people simply don't care about the question of God. You might remember the adage, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink.' But there are things we might do to make it want to drink, and that is in part what this book is about--how to get those apathetic to God to begin caring about the question of God and perhaps the gospel of Christ."
--Corey Miller, president and CEO, Ratio Christi campus apologetics alliance "'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest, ' says our Lord in Luke 10:2. That word for 'send' has often been explained to have a somewhat violent connotation, as if it must be done by force. Well, it has become clear to me that the Lord's method of answering this prayer in this age will mean waking and shaking potential harvesters from the sleep of apathy and preparing them for a harvest field where people are numbed by apathy. In Apatheism, Beshears helps us understand a prevailing mindset of the culture around us. This book helps us become better missionaries and better students of our culture, equipped to engage hearts and minds to see the need they don't know they have. This work is a gift!"
--Noah Oldham, senior director of deployment, Send Network, North American Mission Board, and lead pastor, August Gate Church, Belleville, IL
--Tawa Anderson, associate professor of philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University "We've been trained to share the gospel with adherents of other religions. We've been trained to share the gospel with people who viscerally oppose Christianity. But what about that vast middle of folks who . . . just don't care? As people live their lives unaware of their dire spiritual state, evangelism to the uninterested is perhaps our greatest challenge. Apatheism is the book you need to reach a world that doesn't seem to care. With painstaking scriptural focus and a heart full of compassion for the lost, Beshears lays out an approach that is both biblical and wise. If you care about the people who don't care, you need this book."
--Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications, National Religious Broadcasters, and pastor of teaching and discipleship, Green Hill Church, Mt. Juliet, TN "In a secular age, belief in God is not just contestable, but also uninteresting. There's a new virtue in town: apathy, especially when it comes to ultimate questions about God, meaning, and happiness. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears expertly diagnoses the root causes of this indifference toward the God question and provides a helpful model for sharing the good news of Jesus to the uninterested. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to effectively share the gospel with those who have lost touch with that deepest desire of every human heart for the pursuing love of God. "
--Paul M. Gould, associate professor of philosophy of religion and director of the MA in Philosophy of Religion program, Palm Beach Atlantic University "A wise pastor once told me the biggest problem we face as Christian leaders is not hostility but apathy. And that's the problem that Kyle Beshears helps us address in this important new book. It's not helpful for us to answer questions few bother to ask anymore. Beshears helps us stoke the latent desires of unbelievers to want to want to believe."
--Collin Hansen, editorial director, The Gospel Coalition "Twenty years ago, when I took my first steps into the field of apologetics, non-Christians sometimes misunderstood what I said and often despised the claims that I made--but no one ever said, 'I don't care whether these things are true or false.' But things have changed. Today, I hear some variation of this attitude over and over from high school and college students. It's not that these young people are vehemently anti-Christian; they simply don't care whether or not Christianity is true. Apologists in today's culture must have the capacity not only to respond to false claims about Christianity but also to engage with this growing sense of apathy toward faith. In Apatheism: How We Share When They Don't Care, Kyle Beshears provides a clear roadmap for sharing the gospel with those who claim that they aren't interested in whether or not the claims of Jesus are true."
--Timothy Paul Jones, vice president of doctoral studies and chair of apologetics, ethics, and philosophy, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "In the New Testament, we often read about unbelievers being hostile toward Christians and their faith, but in many places today, we aren't dealing so much with a 'hostility toward the gospel' problem (though that's increasing in places), but with a 'happy without the gospel' problem. How do we reach happy pagans--those who are apathetic toward belief in God? With the rise in secularism in the West, including here in the States, I am thrilled to have Beshears's Apatheism in print. He provides us with important truth to consider in order to be both faithful and effective in our witness, as we radiate a contagious joy in Christ, and as we reflect the love of our God before a broken world in need."
--Tony Merida, dean and professor of preaching and theology, Grimké Seminary; director of theological training, Acts 29; and pastor for preaching and vision, Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC "This book is for those who care to share with those who don't care. It's helpful for everyone to understand the religious, non-religious, and irreligious sentiments of our culture. Increasingly, vast numbers of people simply don't care about the question of God. You might remember the adage, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink.' But there are things we might do to make it want to drink, and that is in part what this book is about--how to get those apathetic to God to begin caring about the question of God and perhaps the gospel of Christ."
--Corey Miller, president and CEO, Ratio Christi campus apologetics alliance "'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest, ' says our Lord in Luke 10:2. That word for 'send' has often been explained to have a somewhat violent connotation, as if it must be done by force. Well, it has become clear to me that the Lord's method of answering this prayer in this age will mean waking and shaking potential harvesters from the sleep of apathy and preparing them for a harvest field where people are numbed by apathy. In Apatheism, Beshears helps us understand a prevailing mindset of the culture around us. This book helps us become better missionaries and better students of our culture, equipped to engage hearts and minds to see the need they don't know they have. This work is a gift!"
--Noah Oldham, senior director of deployment, Send Network, North American Mission Board, and lead pastor, August Gate Church, Belleville, IL
About the Author
Kyle Beshears (ThM, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a PhD candidate at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Church in Mobile, AL.
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To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.
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- Gift cards
- Downloadable software products
- Some health and personal care items
To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
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- Book with obvious signs of use
- CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
- Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
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- Item(s) returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address.
- Item(s) returned to us that were not a result of our error.
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.
Shipping Cost
We'll pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.). In other cases, you will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund.
Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary.
If you are shipping an item over $75, you should consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. We don’t guarantee that we will receive your returned item.
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