__According to statistics, young adults are more disenchanted with the church than ever.   
  
Beyond the statistics are the stories__--real people with real opinions and real experiences. These people are more than just numbers. They are your son or daughter, the barista at your favorite café, a young co-worker, the college student you sit next to at church.  
  
What would happen if we took the time to listen to them?  
  
Listening and trying to understand someone's perspective is time consuming and often challenging. And we may never agree with those other perspectives. But as friends, parents, grandparents, and mentors, we must find ways to bridge the gap and connect with young people.  
  
The future of the church depends on it.  
  
__Enhance Your Experience of the Book with Videos Online: www.OutsiderInterviews.com__

Jim Henderson cofounded Off The Map and is CEO of Jim Henderson Presents. He has written two books on the topic of connecting with Outsiders: Evangelism Without Additives and Jim and Casper Go to Church. Jim earned a DMin from Bakke Graduate University and lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife Barbara.  
  
Todd Hunter, bishop for The Anglican Mission in the Americas, is the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Costa Mesa, California. Author of Christianity Beyond Belief and Giving Church a Second Chance, Todd is also the founding director of Churches for the Sake of Others, the West Coast church planting initiative for The Anglican Mission in the Americas. Todd also founded Three is Enough, a small group movement that makes spiritual formation doable. Todd and his wife Debbie live in Eagle, Idaho, with their two children, Jonathan and Carol.  
  
Craig Spinks is the owner of Quadrid Productions, a production company that specializes in capturing real-life stories that challenge, inform and motivate. He has done work for Billy Graham Mission, Focus on the Family, Henry Cloud, Association of Vineyard Churches, and Vineyard Music. Craig also runs a website called Recycle Your Faith (recycleyourfaith.com) where each week a compelling spiritual topic is introduced through a short video and a vibrant online conversation ensues between people of different viewpoints. Craig and his wife Sara live in Denver, Colorado.

Statistics tell us that Christianity has an image problem. But what are the stories behind the stats? This question led Jim Henderson, Todd Hunter, and Craig Spinks to host a national interview tour with young non-Christians and Christians in Kansas City, Phoenix, Denver, and Seattle. They wanted to hear why Christians get such a bad rap and what we can do to improve.  
  
Inspired by David Kinnaman's bestselling book unChristian, The Outsider Interviews provides close encounters with what a new generation really thinks of Christianity and helps readers learn to live faithfully in a fast-changing world.

Ministry pioneers in creative evangelism offer a groundbreaking "DVB" experience that tells the stories of real people and puts a human face on the issues raised in unChristian.

Henderson, Jim ;Hunter, Todd ;Spinks, Craig

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsements

Dedication

Half Your Book Is Missing!

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1 The Backstory

2 Kansas City Outsiders

3 Klarisa Gets Saved

4 Things Change

5 Phoenix Outsiders

6 The Big Question

7 Putting The Outsider Interviews to Use

8 Denver Outsiders

9 Getting Past Gay

10 The Risky Business of Engaging Difference

11 Seattle Outsiders

12 Six Lessons Learned

13 Where Are They Now?

Appendix A Reading Guide for Groups and Individuals

Notes

About the Authors

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Statistics tell us that Christianity has an image problem. But what are the stories behind the stats? This question led Jim Henderson, Todd Hunter, and Craig Spinks to host a national interview tour with young non-Christians and Christians in Kansas City, Phoenix, Denver, and Seattle. They wanted to hear why Christians get such a bad rap and what we can do to improve.  
  
Inspired by David Kinnaman's bestselling bookunChristian,The Outsider Interviewsprovides close encounters with what a new generation really thinks of Christianity and helps readers learn to live faithfully in a fast-changing world.

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Jim Henderson states "Christianity has an image problem". This book clearly shows its image problem through a series of interviews with young people in America.  
  
Many young people were questioned and their thoughts and views recorded online and in writing. What they think about Christianity makes depressing reading. Again and again, the young people stated they like the idea of Jesus, like His teachings and could relate to Him, but they could not relate to a Christian world that seemed to them to be negative, racist, homophobic and lacking in the love Jesus demonstrated.  
  
In a nutshell, Christians did not act like their Jesus therefore any potential impact of the church is nullified completely by how Christians live out their faith.  
  
The dedication in the book reads "For the people Jesus misses most."  
  
I think the major point made in the book is that Christians do not listen to people preferring to always get their point across. The authors of this book believe that if Christianity is to improve its image amongst the under 30s and bring them to faith and into the church, it has to listen and listen with understanding and not judgement.

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Jim Henderson states Christianity has an image problem. This book clearly shows its image problem through a series of interviews with young people in America. Many young people were questioned and their thoughts and views recorded online and in writing. What they think about Christianity makes depressing reading. Again and again, the young people stated they like the idea of Jesus, like His teachings and could relate to Him, but they could not relate to a Christian world that seemed to them to be negative, racist, homophobic, and lacking in the love Jesus demonstrated. In a nutshell, Christians did not act like their Jesus therefore any potential impact of the church is nullified completely by how Christians live out their faith. The dedication in the book reads For the people Jesus misses most I think the major point made in the book is that Christians do not listen to people preferring to always get their point across. The authors of this book believe that if Christianity is to improve its image amongst the under 30s and bring them to faith and into the church, it has to listen and listen with understanding and not judgement.

Christianity has to listen with understanding and not judgement.

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