Into the Fray: How Jesus's Followers Turn the World Upside Down

In the earliest days of the Christian church, the gospel spread out from Jerusalem in a burst of incredible stories. A man who could calm a stormy sea with a word, who healed the lame and the blind, who raised the ire of the religious leaders, and who even raised people from the dead. Compare this organic, even entertaining, method of spreading the Good News to how we are often encouraged to evangelize today, with clever arguments and our defenses already up in anticipation of rebuttal. Somewhere along the way, we've lost the plot to the greatest story ever told.

Now Matt Mikalatos invites us back into God's story, both to find our place in it and to rediscover the wonder that the apostles saw in their listeners as they told the story of Jesus, the Messiah they knew personally and loved fiercely. As they lose themselves in modern retellings of the events of the book of Acts, readers will find that sharing the story is easier and more rewarding than they ever imagined.

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Rediscover the wonder of sharing the story

In the earliest days of the Christian church, the gospel spread out from Jerusalem in a burst of incredible stories--about a man who calmed a stormy sea with a word, healed the lame and the blind, enraged the religious leaders, and even raised people from the dead. Compare this organic, even entertaining, method of spreading the good news with how we are often encouraged to evangelize today, with clever arguments and our defenses up.

Somewhere along the way, we've lost the plot to the greatest story ever told.

Matt Mikalatos invites us into God's story, both to find our place in it and to rediscover the wonder that the apostles and their listeners experienced. As you lose yourself in these modern retellings of the events of the book of Acts, you'll find that sharing the story is easier and more rewarding than you ever imagined.


"This book achieves the heroic by making millennia-old Scriptures feel fresh. Read this book and see Jesus again for the first time!"--Jonathan Merritt, author of Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined and senior columnist for Religion News Service

"Mikalatos breathes new life into the ancient, holy stories you thought you knew."--Drew Dyck, managing editor of Leadership Journal and author of Yawning at Tigers



Matt Mikalatos is the author of The First Time We Saw Him, My Imaginary Jesus, and Night of the Living Dead Christian and has been on staff with Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) for fifteen years. He has a master's degree in biblical theology from Western Seminary. Matt and his family reside near Portland, Oregon. Learn more at www.mikalatos.com.