THE PASSION GENERATION, by Grant Skeldon

This is a how-to and why-to book. A casual glance shows the reader whom the author is trying to reach. Throughout the entire book, the author includes subheadings, illustrations, and graphics. The author spreads all his content in two parts. Part One contains ten chapters. Part Two contains seven chapters. The last page includes Notes of sources used throughout the book. Grant Skeldon is the primary author. Skeldon runs the Initiative Network, which exists to disciple millennials in the ways of the Christian faith. He writes the book with Ryan Casey Waller, apparently a ghost writer. Waller is the senior pastor of Uptown Services at Incarnation. The book opens with many endorsements by senior pastors and Christian leaders who share a passion for reaching the generation in question.

This book is much what I expected and the author, Grant Skeldon, is a millennial himself. So he can speak from experience. I found this book to be an easy, fast read, interesting, and encouraging. I did expected a how-to book, addressed to older generations, about how to reach the generation in question. What I did not expect was that strong emphasis on discipleship. But I should have expected it. For discipleship, demanding all our time, energy, affections, talents, and all we are NOT, is a challenge. And millennials want a challenge; their problem is that we have not challenged them but have coddled them. Discipleship, the author contends, would meet their emotional and spiritual needs. The trouble is, many of us older adults have not been discipled either, which he acknowledges. One thing that does bother me is that the author states that he converted to Christ, all those whom he attended church services with were whites, his friends were white, and he found himself hanging out at new places. This proves the lack of diversity in the white evangelical Christian church. The author does not address this, unfortunately.

I recommend this book for pastors, other Christian leaders, and any Christian. Non-believers likely will be turned off by all the "God talk," but may be pleased with the author's understanding of not only his generation, but people in general.

I have received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review of this book. I was not required to give a favorable review of this book.