Sine is a futurist who has done his homework, so he competently, crisply and clearly lays out the awesome and also ominous aspects of the rapid globalization of life and commerce which has been an increasingly major feature of our world since the fall of communism. Sine likens the waves of the future about to break over us to large Hawaii-style surfing waves. He counsels us as Christians and as churches to learn now to anticipate and ...
Mustard Seed Versus McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future
By Tom Sine
Baker Books. 1999. 249 pp. Pb. $14.99. 
ISBN 0-8010-9088-1
Reviewed by Elizabeth Dodson Gray
Baker Books. 1999. 249 pp. Pb. $14.99.
ISBN 0-8010-9088-1
Watchman, tell us of the night,What its signs of promise are. -- Advent season hymnIt is seldom that we find a Christian preacher or writer like Tom Sine, who can stand like an Old Testament prophet on the parapet of the city and tell us of the present and the future without losing his own footing in the Christian faith.
