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Faith For Exiles

"Faith For Exiles:
5 Ways for a New Generation to
Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon"
by David Kinnaman &
Mark Matlock
David Kinnaman of Barna Group and Mark Matlock team up to bring us this important book on the importance of raising the new generation upon deeply rooted faith. This book focuses on the 10% of youth who, in contrast to the majority of their generation, have not left the church and are grounded in their faith. As a late-twenty-something myself, this book is somewhat relevant to me. Many things discussed here, I saw during my HS and college years.

Faith for Exiles uncovers 5 foundational ways through which youth need to be raised in, in order to produce resilient Christians. The authors refer to the current age as Digital Babylon since we rely heavily on technology for everything. The youth, especially who were born into and grew up surrounded by the technology, do not know life before it. This can have devasting consequences on their Christian upbringing. We have seen large numbers of youth leave the church and it's more often than not based on lax Christianity and upbringing. 

This book is definitely more on the academic side but the information provided through statistics is very important and youth pastors/ parents and all who work with youth would benefit from reading it. I count myself in the 10% who have never left the church or my faith and many reasons why I can attest to are because of several points discussed here. I was blessed to have grown up in a real Christian home with adults who displayed genuine Christian character and led me into a deeper and meaningful relationship with God.  So I agree with all the points discussed here. I recommend this book!

I received a copy from Baker in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed here are entirely my own.

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