Why is it that people don’t just believe Christianity is false; they assume it isn’t good? How can followers of Jesus effectively communicate the biblical story of his grace and redemption in today’s skeptical, divisive, and technologically saturated world? How should Christians be respectful of unbelievers, all the while remaining focused on Jesus?
Bible Gateway interviewed Joshua Chatraw (@joshchatraw) about his book, Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age (Zondervan, 2020).
What does it mean to be living in a “post-Christian” society?
Joshua Chatraw: In the first century, Christianity was viewed as something new. As it entered the Roman world and beyond, the societies it came into contact with were pre-Christian. This remains the same still today, when missionaries go to unreached people groups to share the gospel. In these contexts, Christianity is seen as new, and perhaps even strange and dangerous, but it has not been tried and tested. These conditions produce certain challenges for the church, but they’re familiar challenges; the church has been working within a pre-Christian context in missions and evangelism for the last 2,000 years.
By Mark Buchanan
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