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Uncomfortable

The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community

Brett McCracken

Uncomfortable

The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community

Brett McCracken

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Does your church make you uncomfortable? It's easy to dream about the "perfect" church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything.

Chances are your church doesn't quite look like that. But what if instead of searching for a church that makes us comfortable, we learned to love our church, even when it's challenging? What if some of the discomfort that we often experience is actually good for us?

This book is a call to embrace the uncomfortable aspects of Christian community, whether that means believing difficult truths, pursuing difficult holiness, or loving difficult people—all for the sake of the gospel, God's glory, and our joy.

  • Title

    Uncomfortable

  • Author(s)

    Brett McCracken

  • ISBN

    9781433554285

  • Format

    eBook

  • Publisher

    Crossway

  • Topic

    Church

  • Audience

    Adults

  • Pages

    224

  • Published

    09/15/2017

Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken is a writer and journalist based in Southern California. He is the author of Hipster Christianity: When Church & Cool Collide (Baker, 2010), Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism & Liberty (Baker, 2013), and Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community (Crossway, 2017). He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN.com, The Princeton Theological Review, The Gospel Coalition, Mediascape, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Relevant, IMAGE Journal, Converge, Mere Orthodoxy, ERLC, Canon & Culture and Q Ideas. He speaks and lectures frequently at universities, churches & conferences. He blogs at brettmccracken.com.

A graduate of Wheaton College and UCLA (M.A. in Cinema & Media Studies), Brett currently works as senior editor at The Gospel Coalition and is pursuing a master’s in theology at Talbot School of Theology.

Brett and his wife Kira live in Santa Ana, California and are active in their local church, Southlands, where Brett serves as a pastor/elder. Brett loves movies, particularly those by Terrence Malick (or those with a Malickean sensibility). Other things Brett enjoys: Marilynne Robinson, the Inklings, Kansas Jayhawk basketball, the Kansas City Royals, reading and writing in coffeeshops, history, art museums, food, hiking, traveling, planning trip itineraries, writing TripAdvisor reviews and making things better by editing.

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