I Once Was Lost, Don Everts
I Once Was Lost, Don Everts
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I Once Was Lost
What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus

Author: Don Everts, Doug Schaupp

Narrator: Theodore O'Brien

Unabridged: 3 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/02/2021

Synopsis

How do people come to Jesus in today's postmodern culture? Not by a mechanical, linear process of cookie cutter conversions. Nor by a nebulous spiritual wandering that never culminates in decision and commitment. Over the last decade, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp have listened to the stories of two thousand postmodern people who have come to follow Jesus. While their stories are diverse and varied, certain common themes emerge. Postmodern evangelism is a mysterious and organic process that nevertheless goes through discernible phases, as people cross thresholds from distrust to trust, from complacency to curiosity and from meandering to seeking. Everts and Schaupp describe the factors that influence how people shift in their perspectives and become open to the Gospel. They provide practical tools to help people enter the kingdom, as well as guidelines for how new believers can live out their Christian faith.

About Don Everts

Don Everts is the senior pastor of First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, and a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries and the Hopeful Neighborhood Project. Don has spent almost three decades helping people on college campuses and in the local church become good stewards of their God-given gifts. Along the way, his wife, Wendy, has been helping Don do the same. His many books include The Reluctant Witness, The Spiritually Vibrant Home, and The Hopeful Neighborhood, all of which feature original research from Barna and biblical insights for our everyday lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Books on Stereo on January 24, 2018

A helpful guide on evangelism in the postmodern era.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on June 02, 2020

There is a famous church planter in a city not far from me who is known for saying that those of us in the church must remember what it is like not to believe. Remembering what it was like not to believe gives us empathy for those who don't yet know or believe the gospel. It also helps us to re-orien......more

Goodreads review by Sue on September 09, 2009

Having been in the Christian bubble since diapers this book was a refreshingly honest look at how people really come to faith. It's been so helpful for me as I examine my own relationships with people and gives me a framework of thinking for their journey. The authors interviewed over 2,000 people t......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 06, 2018

It's a practical book which is often difficult to find on this topic. Though I'm troubled by the authors' omission of several vital parts of Christianity. For example, it barely mentions sin and the need for repentance. What the authors seem to be advertising is a moral lifestyle change, not what Ch......more

Goodreads review by Luis on May 29, 2024

When it comes to evangelism and getting a good gauge about different phases on where people are in their journey with Jesus, def recommend this book on approaching someone and allowing the Holy Spirit to do its thing.......more

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