Confronting Kingdom Challenges

It takes only one look at today's news page or one listen to the news shows to understand that, clearly, there is no shortage of kingdom challenges for the twenty-first-century church at large, for Christian organizations and agencies, or for us as individuals. In the face of such enormous problems as the rise of pagan world religions, AIDS, sexual abuse and trafficking, urban poverty, and ethnic and religious conflict, what can you and your fellow Christians do?

According to the diverse group of contributors in this book, you can choose to get involved, sharing not only the kingdom burdens but the kingdom opportunities with other brothers and sisters in Christ so that no Christian, no church, no ministry, no nation has to confront these challenges alone. But how can you join in doing the work you are called to do? The superb analysis, biblical solutions, and reality-tested ideas put forth in this book by some of the leaders of the global Reformed and evangelical church will show you.

Coming from the fields of religion, education, medicine, broadcasting, psychology, urban ministry, and missions, these fellow Christians are encountering the challenges daily. Their suggestions will give you a grasp of not only what is necessary to be a global evangelical Christian today but how to respond to the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of others around the world-and perhaps in your own backyard.



Samuel T. Logan Jr. (PhD, Emory University) is professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he served as president from 1991 to 2005. He is currently the associate international director of the World Reformed Fellowship, having served as the international director from 2005 to 2015. He is an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and earned a BA from Princeton University, an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a PhD in theology and literature from Emory University. He is married to Susan and has two sons and two grandsons.