{"id":31841,"date":"2008-03-10T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=31841"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:50:08","slug":"book-review-becoming-a-contagious-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/book-review-becoming-a-contagious-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Becoming a Contagious Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBecoming-Contagious-Christian-Bill-Hybels%2Fdp%2F0310210089%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1188061800%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=chrifighpilo-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/21008.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>Bill Hybles and Mark Mittleberg<br \/>\nZondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994.<br \/>\nTopic: Evangelism<\/p>\n<p>While formulaic (the book is structured around the equation \u201cHP+CP+CC=MI\u201d), it does offer some unique insight into witnessing. In one chapter (\u201cStrategic Opportunities in Relationships\u201d), the author specifically addresses some concerns with living \u201cin\u201d the world with non-Christians. The only disappointment in that chapter is that his primary emphasis is the impact of such a choice on those we would evangelize; his only nod to the perceptions of other Christians (which is often crucial) is the potential impact on our \u201creputation,\u201d which he brushes off as \u201cwe\u2019ll be misunderstood, just like Jesus was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/r2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>Recommended<\/strong> <\/span>for those looking for insight into Christian witnessing.<\/p>\n<p>This book is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?event=AFF&amp;p=1136253&amp;item_no=21008\">Christian Book Distributors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBecoming-Contagious-Christian-Bill-Hybels%2Fdp%2F0310210089%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1188061800%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=chrifighpilo-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon<\/a>. <em>(This site is an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases made through Amazon referrals.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- Middle Home --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"6240293435\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hybles and Mark Mittleberg Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994. Topic: Evangelism While formulaic (the book is structured around the equation \u201cHP+CP+CC=MI\u201d), it does offer some unique insight into witnessing. In one chapter (\u201cStrategic Opportunities in Relationships\u201d), the author specifically addresses some concerns with living \u201cin\u201d the world with non-Christians. The only disappointment in that chapter is that his primary [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5161,469,5162],"class_list":["post-31841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-media-reviews","tag-bill-hybles","tag-book-review","tag-mark-mittleberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44895,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31841\/revisions\/44895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}