Jesus is different. Go and do likewise.
We are called to be eccentric—off center, unique, different; not conformed to the patterns of the world but transformed by the renewing of our minds. By the grace of God we are not only dissatisfied by sin but increasingly uncompelled by conventionality.
So resist the allure of acceptability. Get
back to the unsafe roots of our faith. Be equipped to surprise the world
with the Good News it didn’t even know it was waiting for. Challenge
the way things are by living a life that has been truly set free by
Christ.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Here's to the Crazy Ones
- What Are Weird Cities Telling Us?
- Jesus Was the Original Weirdo
- Before We Became Conventional
- What Kills the Weird?
- Seeing Things Weirdly
- If We're Not Weird, We're Doing It Wrong
Endorsements:
Mike Frost is one of the sharpest thinkers we’ve got. I don’t just mean that he’s clever (he is), but that his ideas cut through nonsense with prophetic clarity. And so, of course, this book does
just that. Large swaths of the Western church are in dire danger of cultural assimilation at the precise time that our wider culture islooking for new ideas and alternative answers. Thank God, then, for Mike’s message, which calls us back to the glorious weirdness of the gospel.
PETE GREIG, Author , 24/7 Prayer International
Michael Frost reminds us with winsome prose and challenging clarity that if our neighbors don’t see us living out our Christian faith together as alternative story, something has gone horribly wrong. Read this book and ignore the noise of conformity. If we do, the best days of the local church are just ahead of us.
TIM SOERENS,
cofounder, Parish Collective
