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Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

10 best books like Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile (Rob Bell): Searching for God Knows What, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Everything Must Change, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey, Stuff Christians Like, Mere Christianity, The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

Searching for God Knows What
AuthorDonald Miller
ISBN0785263713
In Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller's provocative and funny book, he shows readers that the greatest desire of "every" person is the desire for redemption. Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
AuthorShane Claiborne
ISBN0310266300
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne...
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
AuthorDonald Miller
ISBN0785209824
Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human questions and find answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to be believed.

Day 1: "Trips  like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But...
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
AuthorShane Claiborne
ISBN0310278422
Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people set apart from this world.

In what can be termed...
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
AuthorAndy Crouch
ISBN0830833943
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category).

It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture...
Everything Must Change
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
ISBN0785289364
How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?

In "Everything Must Change, "you will accompany Brian around the world on a search for answers. Along the way you'll experience intrigue, alarm, challenge, insight, and hope. You'll get a fresh...
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where...
Stuff Christians Like
AuthorJonathan Acuff
ISBN0310319943
Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we’ll break up when we get back. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. Sometimes, you think, “I wish I had a t-shirt that said ‘I direct deposit...
Mere Christianity
AuthorC.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw...
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
AuthorRichard Stearns
ISBN0785229183
WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US?

Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins--or does God expect more?

Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?

Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question...
unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters
AuthorDavid Kinnaman
ISBN0801013003
David Kinnaman is president of The Barna Group, which provides research and resources that facilitate spiritual transformation in people's lives. Since joining Barna in 1995, David has designed and analyzed nearly five hundred studies for a variety of churches, nonprofits, and corporations....
The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
AuthorAlan Hirsch
ISBN1587431645
Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few...
Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples
AuthorThom S. Rainer
ISBN0805443908
The simple revolution is here. From the iPod design to Google’s uncluttered homepage, simple ideas are changing the world.

Multi-awarded #1 national bestseller Simple Church guides Christians back to the simple gospel-sharing methods of Jesus. No bells or whistles required. Based...
Humility: True Greatness
AuthorC.J. Mahaney
ISBN1590523261
Be Transformed by Christ’s Example

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” —1 Peter 5:5

A battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s the clash between our sense of stubborn self-sufficiency and God’s call to recognize that we’re really nothing...
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Heart of His People
AuthorJim Cymbala
ISBN0310211883
Book Review: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire By Jim Cymbala

In 1972, a young married man who did not have a background in ministry took over a dying congregation in a tough, inner-city neighborhood at the urgent request of his minister father-in-law.

Less than twenty people were attending...
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
AuthorMike Yankoski
ISBN1590524020

Mike Yankoski did more than just wonder. By his own choice, Mike's life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. With only a backpack, a sleeping bag and a guitar, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, set out to experience life on the streets in six different...
The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
AuthorGregory A. Boyd
ISBN0310267315
The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword....
The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of
AuthorJohn Eldredge
ISBN0785267166
Sometimes it seems we just can't get what we want. Circumstances thwart our best-laid plans. We struggle to live a heartfelt life. Worst of all, says Eldredge, the modern church mistakenly teaches its people to kill desire (calling it sin) and replace it with duty or obligation (calling it sanctification)....
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