The Gap Between God and Christianity: The Turbulence of Western Culture - Hardcover

by Thomas M. Stallter (Author)

What we fear most has ironically come upon us as Western individualists. We are being controlled by the invisible forces of culture and they have come between God and us. Silent but in the background of all we do and think, its influence cannot be overlooked. We condone and even encourage and champion the very things that create distance between our needs and God's goodness, between our plans and his destiny for us, between our weakness and his strength. We have been deceived. Not only have we created distance between us, but we seldom free God from these cultural and personal expectations and let him speak for himself. We have locked God into our system and, in the end, distracted by our needs for social and personal survival. We must turn our eyes toward him, open our ears to his voice, and let him speak.

Author Biography

Thomas M. Stallter is Professor of Intercultural Studies and World Mission at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. He previously spent many years in pastoral training, church planting, relief work, and business as mission in Central African Republic and Chad.