Inalienable

How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church

By: Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, Matthew Soerens

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been compromised, our numbers are down, and our reputation has been sullied, due largely to our own faults and fears. The church's ethnocentrism, consumerism, and syncretism have blurred the lines between discipleship and partisanship.

Pastor Eric Costanzo, missiologist Daniel Yang, and nonprofit leader Matthew Soerens find that for the church to return to health, we must decenter ourselves from our American idols and recenter on the undeniable, inalienable core reality of the global, transcultural kingdom of God. Our guides in this process are global Christians and the poor, who offer hope from the margins, and the ancient church, which survived through the ages amid temptations of power and corruption. Their witness points us to refocus on the kingdom of God, the image of God, the Word of God, and the mission of God.

The path to the future takes us away from ourselves in unlikely directions. By learning from the global church and marginalized voices, we can return to our roots of being kingdom-focused, loving our neighbor, and giving of ourselves in missional service to the world.

©2022 Eric Costanzo, World Relief, and Wheaton College Billy Graham Center (P)2022 eChristian

Essential Listening for the American Church

Hearing the gospel perspective from others outside of your socio-economic and ethnic circles brings a brand new beauty to the work of Christ and what it means to be made in the image of God.