The Church in Exile: God's Counterculture in a Non-Christian World Format:tradepaper including historical and contemporary approaches

including historical and contemporary approaches

But if you sense something amiss deep down in your believer's soul

Christians met in small house churches surrounded by neighbors and even family members who scorned their beliefs and their morality

His most recent books are How to Love Someone You Can't Stand (1998) and Grace--The Heart of the Fire (1991)

The Church in Exile: God's Counterculture in a Non-Christian World Format:tradepaper including historical and contemporary approachesby James W. Thompson Description Christians have become more and more a minority group in American culture, and so now find themselves in a situation similar to the early Christians facing the challenge of living as cultural exiles. The Church in Exile draws upon the epistle of 1 Peter, which was written to "exiles," to help us learn how to live faithfully when many around us do not share Christian values. Because Christians in America now belong to a