Good News for Our Time
What if the Gospel is more than personal salvation—what if it is the power to change the world?​
In How Jesus Changes the World: Good News for Our Time, Gary C. Fairchild reveals how Jesus restores what humanity lost in Eden: dignity, peace, and purpose.
Blending Scripture, history, and stories from a life of ministry, he shows how the Kingdom of God speaks to today’s struggles with injustice, brokenness, and division.
This is a bold call to live into the good news now—where God’s Kingdom brings healing for individuals, families, communities, and nations.
What people are saying about
How Jesus Changes the World
“Gary Fairchild has given us a good lens for seeing the whole of the gospel’s message and meaning. He gives careful attention to the Kingdom message of Jesus in Matthew and the Synoptics, and to the good news of eternal life in the Gospel of John. Then he helpfully pairs this with stories from his lifetime of observing and participating in the gospel’s impact on whole lives and communities. He sharpens our focus on true dimensions of the gospel far too often blurred by forces that narrow our grasp of why the good news is so good–selfish individualism, ethnocentrism, Christian nationalism, and religious particularism."Dr. Timothy Crouch, VP Alliance Mission. Reynoldsville, OH
"I encourage readers to approach these pages with humility, listening as though they were among the first hearers of the gospels as they were written, for it is only when we hear the Word as it was meant for them that we can apply it faithfully in our time. My hope is that you will find in these pages both clarity and courage to live as citizens of God’s Kingdom, bearing witness to the good news that indeed changes the world."
Dr. Tim Undheim, Professor of the Bible and its languages. Manila, Philippines
"Central to Gary’s message from his exploration of the synoptic gospels is the understanding of the Kingdom of God as near. This nearness is not merely a proclamation of hope for the future, but an invitation to participate in the works God has placed before every believer. The “here and now” of God’s Kingdom is unveiled as we engage daily in acts of kindness, justice, and restoration — each moment, each task, a brush stroke on the larger canvas of God’s redemptive plan. Community development is thus not an abstract ideal, but the very expression of the Kingdom coming alive in the homes, schools, places of work, and hearts of our neighbors."Kevin Sanderson, CAO, World Relief, Baltimore, MD