The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Christian Living

Outreach Resource of the Year

The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the dangers, we enjoy its temporary pleasures, unaware of the damage to our souls.

Jay Kim's Analog Church explored the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church. In Analog Christian, he asks the same question of Christian discipleship. As the digital age inclines us to discontentment, fragility, and foolishness, how are followers of Jesus to respond? What is the theological basis for living in creative resistance to the forces of our day? How can Christians cultivate the contentment, resilience, and wisdom to not only survive but to thrive as we navigate the specific challenges of our age?



Jay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate, a multicongregational church in Silicon Valley. He is the host of IVP's Digital Examen podcast and the author of several books, including Analog Christian, Analog Church, andListen Listen Speak. Jay serves on the board of Practicing the Way and has spent two decades in local church ministry, all in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a teaching pastor and church planter over the years. Jay lives in Silicon Valley with his wife Jenny and their two children.



Foreword by Dan Kimball

Introduction: Digital Smoke, Analog Air, and Fruit



Part I: Cultivating Contentment

1. Love Instead of Self-Centric Despair

2. Joy Instead of Comparison

3. Peace Instead of Contempt



Part II: Cultivating Resilience

4. Patience Instead of Impatience

5. Kindness and Goodness Instead of Hostility



Part III: Cultivating Wisdom

6. Faithfulness Instead of Forgetfulness

7. Gentleness Instead of Outrage

8. Self-Control Instead of Reckless Indulgence



Conclusion: Gardening in the NICU

Acknowledgments

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Notes