I Once Was Lost - by Don Everts & Doug Schaupp (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Everts and Schaupp tell the stories of postmodern people who have come to follow Jesus. They describe the factors that influence how people shift in their perspectives and provide practical tools to help people enter the kingdom.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Do you feel immobilized or lost in this postmodern world as you ponder how to proceed in helping your friends become followers of Jesus? In <em>I Once Was Lost, </em> Don Everts and Doug Schaupp do a masterful job helping us discover how to be a guide alongside of our friends. Through the complex lives and winsome stories of their friends, Don and Doug help us to better understand the journey to faith and the thresholds that need to be crossed to become followers of Jesus. Through reading this book you will be encouraged to discover the fulfilling role you can have in guiding your friends to Jesus.</p>--Jimmy Long, author of Emerging Hope and the Emerging Culture Curriculum Kit<br><br><p>. . .immensely helpful without becoming formulaic. . .the book carefully travels the tightrope between the competing programmatic and relational paradigms of evangelism.</p>--Dan Taylor, Leadership Journal, Fall 2008<br><br><p>[C]ommendable for its frank and realistic look at what entices or deters people on their way into the kingdom of God.</p>--John D. Leatherman in Christian Retailing, April 7, 2008<br><br><p>Everts, Schaupp . . . clearly identify the epistemological dissonance expressed by the skeptic and the effect this dissonance has on the psychology of conversion in the twenty-first century. Having listened to the testimonies of postmodern skeptics who have walked the path to faith, these authors offer us a coherent framework for both understanding the modern convert and accompanying him out of the world and into the kingdom.</p>--Thomas A. Baima, Touchstone, January/February 2015<br><br><p>I would highly recommend the book as insightful, brief, hopeful and stimulating. College students will be loved better by people who read this book.</p>--Andy Rowell, Church Leadership Conversations (andyrowell.net/andy_rowell), September 19, 2008<br><br><p>Many in college ministry will find this book fresh and challenging. Others will see in it principles and observations in which they already function comfortably. Either way, <em>I Once Was Lost</em> provides an apt reminder that what it means to creatively and respectfully love those whom God loves must change over time.</p>--Chap Clark in Christianity Today, June 2008<br><br><p>Marked by a humility and maturity in desiring to make change in the way Christian become fishers of men, <em>I Once Was Lost</em> is a practical tool. With wise insights and healthy encouragement, Christians are inspired to take care in finding the answers and allow time, faith and prayer to be what leads others as well.</p>--Worship Leader, July/August 2008<br><br><p>Particularly helpful is their discussion of how to provoke curiosity about the gospel. Although many Christians might be comfortable giving answers, they show that Jesus was a master of asking good questions.</p>--Susan Olasky, WORLD July 12/19 2008<br><br><p>There is a lot of practical advice to be found here on how best to win postmodern people for Christ.</p>--Guy Davies, Protestant Truth, July-August 2009<br><br><p>This book is a gem worth being found.</p>--Jason Brian Santos, The Journal of Student Ministries, November/December 2008<br><br><p>This easy-flowing book tells many stories of students as they cross each threshold and gives practical tips on how to support people in each step.</p>--John Dunham, Youth Worker Journal, September/October 2008<br><br><p>This is a primer on how postmodernity affects evangelism. Doug and Don's observations are born out of experience, not theory. Their insights are accessible and applicable not only on the college campus but where you live and work.</p>--Jim Henderson, author of Evangelism Without Additives and Jim and Casper Go to Church<br><br><p>While the five thresholds give us bearings in a time of transition, Everts and Schaupp remind us that no model should be held too closely--as evangelism is finally determined by the individual before us.</p>--InterVarsity.org Staff Website, June 2008<br>
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