Pre-Owned Is God a Christian (Paperback) 0881465763 9780881465761

In a world composed of almost seven billion people, about 2.2 billion of them claim to be Christian. Some scholars predict that Islam will overtake Christianity as the worlds largest religion by the middle of the twenty-first century. Predictions aside, religions are competing for the world stage, and in the competition, Christians often think and behave as though God is a Christian. This book is written to ask if that assumption is true and to foster a more open conversation about other world religions. The world has grown too small and the stakes for mankind have grown too high for any of us to engage our faith as if our understanding of God represents the only way Gods presence may be known in the world. We need, more than ever before, to develop creative communities of conversation. Conversation does not begin with talking. It begins with listening. We need to gather in humility and honesty to face the meanness and evil that religion itself has sometimes heaped upon mankind.