The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The single fastest-growing religious group of our time comprises those who check the box next to the word “none” on national surveys. In America, this is 20 percent of the population—and most churches are doing virtually nothing to reach them. In this examination of evangelism methods that lead only to transfer growth—Christians moving from one church to another—James Emery White calls us to discover the mission field right outside our doors. As the pastor of a megachurch that is currently experiencing 70 percent of its growth from the unchurched, White knows how to reach this growing demographic, and here he shares his ministry strategies with concerned pastors and church leaders. If you long to fill your church with lost people entering the family of God, this book is where you should start.
- Title: The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated
- Author: James Emery White
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Non-church-affiliated people; Christianity › United States
- ISBNs: 9781493401260, 9780801016233, 1493401262, 0801016231
- Resource ID: LLS:RISEOFTHENONES
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:43:35Z
James Emery White, Ph.D. is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church (Meck). Under his leadership, Meck has grown to tens of thousands active attenders. He is the president of Serious Times, a ministry that explores the intersection of faith and culture and hosts churchandculture.org. He holds a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. from Southern Seminary. He has also studied at Vanderbilt University and Oxford University in England. Dr. White is a former professor of theology and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he also served as their fourth president. He is the author of more than twenty books including The Rise of the Nones, Serious Times, and A Mind for God, Christianity for People Who Aren’t Christians and After "I Believe" and his latest book Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for the Post-Christian Digital Age. Jim and his wife, Susan, have four children and 16 grandchildren.