Winning a Generation Without the Law: Essentials of the Gospel for a Postmodern Culture

Apostolic Christianity recognized the importance of communicating the gospel to two radically different cultures: those under the law and those without law.  Up until forty years ago, Western civilization was a culture under the law: a world that accepted the premise of a Lawgiver outside of creation who decrees absolute truth and an unchanging morality.  Bryan Fraser argues that, while evangelical Christianity did a tremendous job of proclaiming the gospel to this former culture, we have struggled in shifting gears to a society founded on pluralism, naturalism, secularism, and humanism--Paul's culture "without law."
  
Winning a Generation Without the Law explores how the rules of engagement have changed in the 21st century. It examines ten "rights" evangelicals enjoyed for 500 years in a culture under the law, but which have increasingly become impediments to the gospel today. Fraser argues that we can no longer afford to play the 'heavy' of Western civilization: expecting people to submit to God's law before they receive his Spirit. He calls Christians to once again become wise as serpents and harmless as doves in a society that has taken down its 'welcome' signs.   

          Topics the book addresses are:

• The only response the gospel actually requires (and what obligations we have added).
• The biblical pattern of gospel preceding law.
• Common misconceptions about what Bible truths fallen man must confess in order to become a Christian.
• Why the familiar legal "plan of salvation" is the means for those already in covenant relationship to address their sins--not the gospel.
• How our contemporary gospel message has crept far beyond its singular commission to offer life to those who will receive it.
• The widening gap between our legal gospel and postmodern thought.
• How we have blended evangelism and discipleship (and the resultant weakening of the gospel's power).
• Six impossible demands we place on the natural man.