"The Church is irrelevant to my day-to-day life! It's just a dead, empty tradition of the past." This is the overwhelming consensus among young people today, and it has resulted in an ever-widening cultural divide between the secular youth culture and the Church. Much of what was formerly regarded as the Christian world is leaving its roots behind and is dominated by secularism and relativism. The Bible is no longer considered the moral compass, but rather everyone is free to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. As followers of Jesus, it's clear that we need to respond to this - but how? Jesus in the Secular World combines vivid illustrations from over a decade of front-line ministry with practical principles that will encourage and equip any follower of Jesus to relevantly reach those who would not come to the Church for answers.

Jesus in the Secular World: Reaching a Culture in Crisis

Religion & Spirituality

Pierce, Ben

Christian Books & Bibles

Steiger Press

Excerpt: I was walking down our street in Amsterdam to pick up some groceries when I noticed a group gathered around the canal. The grocery store was on the edge of the Red Light District, so it always made for an interesting trip because of the people I would meet on the way. I neared the group, trying to figure out what had attracted them. Suddenly I saw it. There was a dead body in the canal. It wasn't the first time I had seen something like this. Today it was a prostitute. Another time it had been a junkie. Apparently the prostitute had gotten into a fight and been thrown into the canal. --- Steiger means "pier" in Dutch. Our name comes from the address of the barge behind Central Station in Amsterdam, Holland - "Steiger 14" - where Steiger International first began. In the 1980's, David and Jodi Pierce started a Bible study there for the un-churched and the punks; in time, this effort resulted in the establishment of a church in the inner city. It was during this time that David Pierce formed the band No Longer Music as a tool for communicating Jesus to the secular music scene. From Amsterdam, they began organizing evangelistic tours throughout Western and Eastern Europe, including Russia and Mongolia. Steiger International's ministries have planted churches in Siberia, Poland, Germany, Holland and the USA. Steiger has founded annual Jesus Camps (Bible camps) in Europe and Brazil, evangelistic tours for a number of new ministry bands and Discipleship Training Schools. Additionally, Steiger supplies speakers to churches around the world, speaking about world evangelism and the challenge of reaching the global youth culture.

Something Broken Something extraordinary

Jodi Pierce

This is not a book about art that glorifies art. This is a book about killing your art and surrendering it to Jesus in order for your gift to reach its greatest potential. Philip Shorey, founder and director of the Suitcase Sideshow marionette theater, will take you through the creative process to discover what it takes—from a biblical perspective—to be an artist and a messenger of Jesus Christ using street performance as the creative medium. www.killyourart.com

Kill Your Art: A Street Performer's Guide to being a Messenger of Jesus Christ

Shorey, Philip

Travelogues of a Family Sideshow is a true story that spans over one hundred years in evangelistic art anthropology beginning with the Titanic. Journey the far corners of the world as one family, throughout generations, continuously surrender their art and lives to the calling of Jesus Christ—while facing war-stricken lands, financial burdens, remnants of political corruption, riots, and other countless adversity. This is not the account of a perfect family. Nor is this a tale of mere adventure. This is evidence of how extraordinary God’s plan can be when allowed to work a generational blessing in these travelogues of a family sideshow.

Travelogues of a Family Sideshow

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Global Youth Culture is a powerful look at how to reach the next generation for Jesus across the globe. It is a call for the millennial generation to join the worldwide missions force to reach their peers.The Global Youth Culture represents the predominant and mainstream culture of young people in every city around the world. To reach them and challenge such a predominant and opposing mindset in our society today, we desperately need God's power.Following the journey of missionary and musician Luke Greenwood, the stories in Global Youth Culture demonstrate the gospel at work in some of the most unlikely places. Working with Steiger International, Greenwood has witnessed to young people in clubs in Russia, hostile crowds in Zurich, nominal Muslims in Turkey, transgender prostitutes in S o Paulo and more.From the perspective of frontline missionary involvement, Greenwood describes the spiritual need of the global generation and the challenges this brings to missions today. Through his many stories, of street evangelism, Greenwood offers a combination of social analysis and insight, apologetical and biblical teaching, and examples of missionary models that work. Global Youth Culture draws from and quotes the works of Francis Schaeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Timothy Keller, Zygmunt Bauman, James W. Sire, Terry Eagleton and others. In the gritty stories of frontline missionary work you see Greenwood's courage and faithfulness bear fruit as hardened youth find hope in Jesus. Greenwood draws from Lindsay Olesberg's The Bible Study Handbook to provide discipleship tools and equip the reader to take evangelism to the next level-from witness to relationship. Complete with an appendix on how to have a Bible study to examples of Bible studies, Global Youth Culture will inspire and motivate you to reach the global youth and equip them to overcome the world. Luke Greenwood grew up the son of British missionaries to Brazil, and currently lives in Wroclaw, Poland, with his wife Ania and their two children. Luke serves as the European Director for Steiger, a mission organisation dedicated to reaching and discipling the Global Youth Culture for Jesus. Having worked with the mission for 17 years in places like London and S o Paulo, in more recent years Luke has helped establish Steiger teams in Poland, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. His vision is to see Jesus proclaimed to young people all over the European continent. Luke teaches at the Steiger Mission School on the topics of Evangelism and Discipleship in the Global Youth Culture and travels the globe to speak on missions, challenging people to live a radical faith and courageously engage the Global Youth Culture with the gospel.

Global Youth Culture: The Spiritual Hunger of the Largest Unreached Culture Today

Greenwood, Luke