Mike King, president of YouthFront and author of Presence-Centered Youth Ministry tagged me the other day to contribute to a list of the best books of theology published in the last 25 years.

This is the criteria:

Name three (or more) theological works from the last 25 years (1981-2006) that you consider important and worthy to be included on a list of the most important works of theology of that last 25 years (in no particular order).

I am not sure how to really gauge the ‘most important works’ but here are the three that had shaped my life in unspeakable ways…

The Open Secret, Lesslie Newbigin — The Christian Story, Gabe Fackre — Announcing the Kingdom, Arthur Glasser.

I tag Steve Argue …