Article October 22, 2001 Issue

BOOK REVIEW

SoulTsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture

By Holly Hand

"If your church closed today, who would miss it besides its members?"

The above is one of the many thought-jolting questions Leonard Sweet asks as he explores the ways that churches can reach the world in the 21st century. Sweet, a Methodist, and author of over a dozen books, is currently professor of evangelism at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

"The Dick-and-Jane world of my '50s childhood is over," Sweet acknowledges, "washed away by a tsunami of change .... Electronics ... has created a sea change such as the world has never experienced before, including a huge shift in religious sensibility." The traditional church will be swept away unless it can learn to swim in these tidal waves. This is a spiritual tsunami which has hit, and "this wave will build without breaking for decades to come. The wave is this: People want to know God. They want less to know about God or know about religion than to know God."

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