Senior Pastor of Hope Church, Las Vegas, NV

We need an awakening in our nation, and it will begin in the church with a true movement to the gospel-centeredness. I thank God for Dean and the voice God has given him to speak into this generation so powerfully. Having lived through two extremes on this issue, I so appreciate Dean Inserra tackling this subject and providing such powerful insights. I now experience life and pastoring a church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Having been raised in an environment of cultural Christianity, it wasn’t until I was a freshman in college that I truly experienced the life-changing power of a relationship with Jesus through the gospel. Pastor of Cross Pointe Church, Duluth, GAįormer President of the Southern Baptist Convention This book will drive you to do just that and help you see whether or not you are ready for the final exam. The apostle Paul said Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith (2 Cor. One of the greatest threats to Christianity in America is cultural Christianity, and it may be the most popular-and dangerous-type of Christianity practiced in America, particularly and especially in the Bible Belt. One of the top young pastors in America has written a book that is both candid and courageous and tackles a subject that should make everyone who claims to be a Christian wake up, sit up, and listen up.

President, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention As the pastor of one of the most dynamic, growing, and gospel-centered churches in the country, Dean Inserra is well-qualified to equip the church on how to reach unsaved Christians with the only message that can really save: the gospel of Jesus Christ. A cultural Christianity sends its adherents to the same place that outright rejection of the gospel does, to hell, but pretends to put into the mouth of Jesus the old lie of the snake, You shall not surely die. An almost-gospel is worse than no gospel at all. I am convinced that the greatest threat to the church today is not secularism or atheism, but nominal, cultural Christianity. The Unsaved Christian offers much-needed actionable help to the minister and the layperson alike. Bringing pastoral and practical wisdom to the task, he coaches us on how to draw those with only a surface commitment to Christianity into true belief. I have already begun recommending it.Ĭultural Christianity has been a popular target of critique for some time, but Dean offers us more than insight into its existence-he offers a way forward. But when Dean Inserra unpacks the reality of cultural Christianity today, he hits us right between the eyes with the state of much of Christianity we see in our communities and our churches.

At first glance, The Unsaved Christian seems to be a classic oxymoron.

The Unsaved Christian by Dean Inserra