Made for the Middle: Fighting for Together in a Divided World. This item is unavailable.Made for the Middle: Fighting for Together in a Divided World

With so many hot-button issues causing divisiveness in our culture, many Christians are struggling to live out their faith. There is a way, says Micahn Carter. Jesus modeled it perfectly: He stood strong in the middle of tension and loved people outside of His comfort zone.

Growing up in a home mired in conflict, Micahn Carter learned how to unify people at an early age. As a young adult, he was skilled at understanding all sides of an issue and building togetherness. Then he became the pastor of a small, predominantly African-American church in downtown Yakima, Washington, where he reached out to people of different cultures, races, relationships, and opinions. Within a few years, Together Church grew into a thriving, multi-racial community of several thousand members that now spans three campuses.

In Made for the Middle, he reminds Christians that God sent his Son to die for broken humanity so that reconciliation could be a new way of life―reconciliation between God and man, and through the power of Jesus, reconciliation among humankind.

Made for the Middle provides a roadmap for resisting the urge to pick a side in the latest cultural debate and fighting instead for unity, for together, for love. Transformation is possible only when we take the time to build relationship, to seek to understand, and to follow Jesus’s example of creating unity.

Micahn Carter is the Lead Pastor of Together Church, one of the largest multi-site churches in Eastern Washington. Under his leadership, Together Church grew from 50 people in the roughest part of Yakima, Washington to a few thousand people in several locations. Micahn is known for his straightforward and humorous communication style. He and his wife April have three sons: Meeks, Alijah, and Dewey.