Update: Thanks for the hundreds of you who wrote in! We are closing this offer. the first 75 will hear from Jason Hayes, my co-author, in the next few days.
If you are a blogger who would like to have an advance look at Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and Churches that Reach Them, please email your name, address, and blog address to jason.hayes@threadsmedia.com.
The first 75 bloggers that email Jason and indicate they will do a review will get a free copy. (And, it does not even have to be a positive review!)
This blog post will disappear soon, so let us know if you are interested immediately.
Here's a quick look into what it's all about:
Who are the young unchurched, and how can they be reached with the good news of Jesus Christ?
In a poll result highlighted by CNN Headline News and USA Today, nearly half of nonchurchgoers between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine agreed with the statement, "Christians get on my nerves." Now, researchers behind the larger study present Lost and Found, a blend of dynamic hard data and modern day parable that tells the real story of an unchurched generation that is actually quite spiritual and yet circumspect, open to Jesus but not the church.
As such, Lost and Found is written to the church, using often-surprising results from the copious research here to strike another nerve and break some long established assumptions about how to effectively engage the lost. Leading missiologist Ed Stetzer and his associates first offer a detailed investigation of the four younger unchurched types. With a better understanding of their unique experiences, they next clarify the importance each type places on community, depth of content, social responsibility, and making cross-generational connections in relation to spiritual matters.
Most valuably, Lost and Found finds the churches that have learned to reach unchurched young adults by paying close attention to those key markers vetted by the research. Their exciting stories will make it clear how your church can bring searching souls from this culture to authentic faith in Christ.
Those who are lost can indeed be found. Come take a closer look.
Posted on January 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM ~ 22 Comments
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Email just sent!
Thank you very much for the offer! Just sent in my email.
I am in
I'm in and can't wait to read it.
I will do it! Is this where I email?
I would be honored to review the book.
Count me in! I would love to review the book.
Just sent the email. I loved the free excerpt that we got at NOC08, and it was a great read on the flight back to Houston.
I'd love to give a review from a southern hemisphere perspective. Email sent.
Name: Ryan Tan (Youth Pastor, Victory Christian Fellowship, Philippines)
Address: Unit 302 St. Thomas Square Building 1150 Espana Blvd Cor. P. Campa St. Sampaloc Manila, 1008
Blog address: http://ptrryan.multiply.com/
Hope i made it to the cut off. It would really help us here. God bless!
by the way, tried sending my info's to the email but can't send it. Don't know why. Thanks
Ryan,
I just tested it an it is working.
Ryan and all, be sure you send the email there. That is the only place that will get an advanced copy.
Ed
Just sent in mine...hope i was not too late!
I would love to review your book. I just sent my email.
I'd volunteer, but I'd hardly be considered a blogger by any stretch of the imagination. I could just barely be considered a blog commenter or possibly a Titterer. As such, I'll probably resign myself to looking for this when it comes out. Sounds like something that I'll find useful in the not-too-distant future.
Dang. Amazon already shipped my copy. Oh well.
I'm in. I just sent and email.
Robb Hand
robb.handfamily.us
Ed,
How funny this has turned out for me today. I have been busy reading having finished Church Planting in the Real World; then reading 44 Questions for Church Planters through and now I am reading the copy of Lost and Found that I received at the Illinois Baptist Convention that was made available to us.
I will gladly write a review and post it within the next day or two.
Yours in the fields,
Martin
Ed,
Thanks for the post. I didn't even comment, I jumped right over and emailed, and got into the group.
I owe you. Something.
What Bob said.
Name: Grant Dunlop
Address: 5 Dunkeld Avenue, Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK, BT19 6RA
Blog Address: www.reformedpilgrim.wordpress.com
I hope this does the job??!!
Thanks guys
I'm on page 27 and already this thing is SCREAMING at me.
Wow. Do I EVER owe you, brother.