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DALLAS, October 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- A dangerous rift has opened up between society and the Christian church—a moral friction between the Bible's message and the current culture's sense of right and wrong. Questions about God that used to center around His existence are now aimed at His morality.

In Searching for a Better God (Paternoster), Wade Bradshaw thoroughly explains and examines the repercussions of the "common sense theology" which has condemned the God of the Bible as vindictive, angry, distant—and worse. "People cannot flourish without hope," says Bradshaw. "Yet this growing suspicion that God exists but is not worthy of our affection or devotion is subtly robbing the world of its one true hope. God cannot be a source of hope, not because He isn't real, but because He would not be good to know and to live with forever. This is what I call the New Story."

Bradshaw dissects this New Story by examining three questions: Is God Angry?, Is God Distant?, and Is God a Bully? Bradshaw also explains that, rather than designing God, we must discover Him, and in this we are in need of revelation.

Though much of the present-day church is oblivious to the fact that it is out of touch with the real questions being asked by this generation, the body of Christ is responding, knowingly or unknowingly, in three ways. One group doesn't want to listen to the suspicions of the New Story at all, thereby refusing to pay them any attention. The second group, persuaded by the New Story, sees the need to modify the old teachings and bring them into line with what is considered obviously moral today. But, there is a third path that Bradshaw claims is the Christian way because it follows God's example.

In Searching for a Better God, Bradshaw explains why the caricatures many have drawn of God are not accurate and God, as described in the Bible, is misunderstood. By giving readers practical ways to talk to those who doubt God's character, Bradshaw skillfully instructs the church how to reach the lost with a hope that can only be found in a confident, unwavering hope in God, the perfect and moral God of the Bible.

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