Influential Reads

Community

• Creating Community by Andy Stanley and Bill Willits
• The Connecting Church by Randy Frazee, Larry Crabb, George Gallup, and Dallas Willard
• Essential Church?: Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts by Thom S. Rainer and Sam S. Rainer
• Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church by Nelson Searcy & Jennifer Henson
• Generation We by Eric Greenberg with Karl Weber (Editor’s Note: This book is not written from a Christian perspective.)
• The Gospel According to Starbucks by Leonard Sweet
• In Real Time by Michael L. Glenn (releases in April)
• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them by Ed Stetzer, Richie Stanley, and Jason Hayes
• Organic Community by Joseph R. Myers
• The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers
• Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger
• They Like Jesus but Not the Church by Dan Kimball
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (Editor’s Note: This book is not written from a Christian perspective.)

Connection

Research Based

• unChristian by David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons
• The Younger Evangelicals by Robert E. Webber
• Essential Church? by Thom S. Rainer & Sam S. Rainer III

Understanding YAs

• Dear Church by Sarah Cunningham
• Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
• What the Heck Am I Going To Do with My Life? by Margaret Feinberg
• Twentysomething by Margaret Feinberg and Bebo Norman
• No Perfect People Allowed by John Burke

Depth

• Sacred Echo by Margaret Feinberg
• Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
• Culture Making by Andy Crouch
• Soul Cravings by Erwin McManus
• Simply Christian by N.T. Wright
• The Reason for God by Timothy Keller
• The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
• How Now Shall We Live by Charles Colson
• Desiring God by John Piper
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
• The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
• The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
• Celebration of Discipline by Robert Foster

Responsibility

• Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul by Dave L. Goetz
• The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
• Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian by Gary A. Haugen
• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider
• Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey
• Saving God’s Green Earth by Tri Robinson with Jason Chatraw
• Small Footprint, Big Handprint by Tri Robinson
• When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg
• Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century edited by Alex Steffen (Editor’s Note: This book is not written from a Christian perspective.)