But many American pastors are faced with a similarly daunting task: to bring Jesus to a place where He is admired but not worshipped, where God is a grandpa in the sky, where many of their congregants are ‘good people’ who don’t know they need to be saved. “When we think of unreached people groups, we envision intrepid missionaries taking the gospel to a place where the name of Jesus has never been spoken. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not part of the equation.” (13)Ĭhapter 2 – Religion Without Salvation: Characteristics of Cultural Christianity. It looks and sounds very Christian on the surface, but is merely Christian by culture, rather than conviction. Its participants can be found in Catholic or Protestant churches, in the South and Midwest, on high school football fields, at patriotic celebrations, and around family dinner tables. “What he (Dean’s friend, Matt) was describing was Cultural Christianity: a religion that, I believe, is practiced by more Americans than any other faith or religion. The purpose of this post is to share some of the best quotes from each chapter of the book.Ĭhapter 1 – Help Them Get Lost: The Case for Reaching Cultural Christians.

However, the book also helped to reinforce some of my own observations from nearly fourteen years of pastoral ministry. While on vacation earlier this month I had the opportunity to read Dean Inserra’s new book, The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel.

Dean inserra the unsaved christian