<p>"Helpfully situating the peculiar travails and challenges to belief and fidelity in the contemporary moment, Alan Noble invites us to practice a life in Christ deeper than the fragile faith-as-preference model, which our distracted, secular age constrains us to adopt. Instead, he calls us, as both individuals and as the church, to thoughtfully contemplate our walk and our witness to Christ, so that we might not be heedlessly swept away in the patterns of thought and practice of this age. It’s an appeal worth attending, not only for its clarity and urgency, but because it is one I’ve seen Alan embody for years in his own faithfully disruptive life and witness."</p><p><em>Derek Rishmawy, PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, columnist for Christianity Today</em></p>
<p>"Alan Noble has written a concise and timely meditation on the conditions under which Christian witness may be pursued in our age and place. This book is real food for real thought."</p><p><em>Alan Jacobs, Baylor University, author of How to Think</em></p>
<p>"Building on the work of philosopher Charles Taylor in <em>A Secular Age</em>, Alan Noble deftly describes unique modern barriers to life lived with and for the Triune God and calls fellow Christians to a better, full-bodied witness. Noble’s teaching gives me hope for the possibility of enfleshed Christian witness in an age that is prone to mostly shrug at ultimate questions. It will also leave more than a few of us disrupted ourselves."</p><p><em>Katelyn Beaty, author of A Woman’s Place, editor-at-large at Christianity Today</em></p>
<p>"In an age of distraction and the 'buffered self,' perhaps this is more a time for preparing the soil than for reaping. In any case, Alan Noble displays the disruptive resources of Christ's kingdom that are at hand. I will be recommending this book far and wide!"</p><p><em>Michael Horton, professor of theology and apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, cohost on White Horse Inn</em></p>
<p>"If you want to know what the next generation of evangelicalism could and should look like, look to Alan Noble. Grounded, faithful, and circumspect, he is asking all the right questions and leading us to better answers."</p><p><em>Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me</em></p>
<p>"In our current cultural moment where self is at the center, distraction is the norm, and faith is anything you want it to be, fresh formation and evangelistic strategies are sorely needed. Instead of laboring to help friends, colleagues, and neighbors to merely feel safe and comfortable with our faith, perhaps it’s time to consider a return to the New Testament way. For although the world has changed, the human need has remained the same—for grace <em>and</em> truth, for love <em>and</em> law, for a culture of kindness <em>and</em> a call to repent, for provision of comfort <em>and</em> prophetic disruption. In <em>Disruptive Witness</em>, Alan does a terrific job of painting a picture of what this can look like for us. I highly recommend his work to you."</p><p><em>Scott Sauls, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, author of Jesus Outside the Lines</em></p>
<p>"The title of the book, <em>Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age</em>, is its thesis and prescription. How do you understand, and then speak into our distracted and secular age? Noble says with disruptive witness. Following in the path of Schaeffer, Myers, Wells, Guinness, Sire, Smith, and others, Noble offers keen analysis of the situation we are living in and helpful reflection on how both to resist and engage it. This is a book I would love to read with colleagues, seminary students, pastors, church leaders, and educators, both as an insightful commentary on our culture, and as an example of how a younger generation of evangelical thinkers are assessing and addressing it."</p><p><em>Ligon Duncan, chancellor and CEO at Reformed Theological Seminary, John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology</em></p>
<p>"Alan Noble is both a careful, clearheaded thinker, and a passionate advocate for truth in a post-truth culture. I can think of few people who would serve as better guides for navigating the complex and frustrating culture we inhabit. This book is a must-read for those hoping that the church can maintain a bold and faithful witness in the days to come."</p><p><em>Mike Cosper, author of Recapturing the Wonder and Faith Among the Faithless</em></p>
<p>"In <em>Disruptive Witness</em>, Alan Noble examines the unique barriers to communicating a transcendent gospel in our distracted, secular age, directing his keen cultural analysis toward a most admirable end—evangelism. And yet, these insights into how our neighbors now process—or are unable to process—the claims of historic Christianity also apply to the fragmented, secularized people in our pews. In this regard, Noble's work will have special value to ministry leaders and pastors such as myself who are called to be disrupters and disciplers of those who, in turn, must embody a witness that 'unsettles people from their stupor.' I felt challenged by the book as a preacher, liturgist, shepherd, evangelist, father, and neighbor. You willbe richly challenged by it too."</p><p><em>Duke Kwon, lead pastor of Grace Meridian Hill, Washington, DC</em></p>
<p>"While reading <em>Disruptive Witness</em> I got more than a little tired of Alan Noble reading my mind, diagnosing my issues, and jabbing at the nerves of my heart. Page after page he hit on issues of thought, habit, perspective, or lifestyle with which I struggle and in which I fail to be a proper witness for Jesus. Of course what I was really tired of was my own distracted, thin faith. And those are the very things this book helps. Noble clearly and gently diagnoses the problems first andthen he offers robust solutions. <em>Disruptive Witness</em> is incisive, substantial, and encouraging for tired, frustrated believers looking for direction."</p><p><em>Barnabas Piper, author and podcaster</em></p>
