{"id":5824,"date":"2010-06-14T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:24:06","slug":"the-new-face-of-american-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-new-face-of-american-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Face of American Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabe Lyons, Jon Tyson, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Shannon Sedgwick Davis and Nicole Baker Fulgham recently talked<\/a> with ABC News about the new face of American Christianity. <\/p>\n

A great conversation!<\/p>\n

I love their posture and their thoughts. No left or right. No young or old. Just people who want to make a real difference in the world in the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n

They talk about adoption issues, education, nuclear proliferation, AIDS, poverty, Joseph Kony<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

The upcoming generation of Christians will not be defined by one or two issues — and I believe we’re interested in looking more outward than inward.<\/p>\n

No more us vs. them.<\/p>\n

And I firmly believe that the world should be better because followers of him live in it. Everyone should live better lives because they live by Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that goes beyond just “Christians.”<\/p>\n

I hope that you<\/em> live a better life because you know me<\/em> — or live by me<\/em> — or read something I wrote along the way. It’s not an egotistical thing. I just take ownership of this broader idea and hope that I’m making your<\/em> world better in some form or fashion.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited about a church that shows up… and shows up on time… living out tenants of justice and mercy that is thick in the Bible that I believe in — and one that’s daring and courageous and willing to jump off a cliff for it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Shannon Sedgwick Davis<\/p>\n

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If the video doesn’t show, watch it on ABCNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(HT to Charles Lee<\/a> for the video)<\/p>\n

Also, if you’d like to find out more about Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, and the great work he’s doing with the Two Futures Project, be sure and check out his recent interview on our podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabe Lyons, Jon Tyson, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Shannon Sedgwick Davis and Nicole Baker Fulgham recently talked with ABC News about the new face of American Christianity. A great conversation! I love their posture and their thoughts. No left or right. No young or old. Just people who want to make a real difference in the world … Continue reading The New Face of American Christianity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[3605,180,751,788,3600,3601,3604,3603,3602],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-take-action","tag-abc-news","tag-america","tag-christianity","tag-evangelism","tag-gabe-lyons","tag-jon-tyson","tag-nicole-baker-fulgham","tag-shannon-sedgwick-davis","tag-tyler-wigg-stevenson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1vW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}