An 8-Track Church in a CD World: The Modern Church in a Postmodern World

by Robert N. Nash Jr.

Book Overview

In the last twenty years, Americans have witnessed dramatic changes in the wider culture, and yet local churches have hardly changed. We pretend that people want the same things from church in the present day that they wanted in the 1950s. For this reason, 21st century Christianity in America is deeply troubled.

Loren Mead states in the foreword, "Nash is terribly helpful to us in exploring the painful cultural divide we straddle between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573123579
• ISBN13: 9781573123570
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Dr. Nash helped me understand, and now move forward.

I am an engineer and go to Church somewhat regularly. After reading this book, I now have a better idea of why I have been discouraged with my religious experiences at Church. Dr. Nash explains the problems that face today's church and its congregation. The points that Dr. Nash discusses, establish a starting point to experience Christianity within our world of mass information and search for a meaningful life. Dr. Nash describes what the new Church will be, and explains there are many roads to get there. It will not be easy, but rather extremely difficult. Mainly because congregations go from "group-followers" to individuals with individual responsibility and in that, lead the Church into a new open world with the ministers and pastors being coaches and supporters. As time passes, we will see who is up for the responsibility to be a Christian and who remains locked behind walls in the old world. Welcome to the new world we live in, thanks Dr. Nash.

A postmodern view of the problems the church faces.

Dr. Nash pinpoints the problems that the postmodern church faces today. His real life experiences are very humorous and entertaining. He offers the cutting edge in identifying what decay lies within the church context. However he does not offer any soluable solutions to these problems. This book is well written and genuinely thought out.