Be Killed Softly by God
The world is broken and upside-down. It’s time to die to self, so Christ can use you to turn the world right-side up.

To be born again, first you have to die…
Killing Us Softly
The gospel is good news, but in a world like ours, it can seem like a kind of death. The road to life in Christ, after all, takes us through the Cross.
But if God is killing us, he’s killing us softly, gently remaking us in his image. That’s a stark difference from our cold, hard world- a world turned upside down by sin, a world no one gets out of alive.
In Killing Us Softly Efrem Smith invites us into the countercultural Kingdom of God right here in our midst, which is actively, relentlessly setting us and the whole world right-side up.
Be challenged and empowered by this “punch packing fist of a book” as you learn what it means to become ambassadors for Christ.
We are God’s solution to communities in need.

Efrem Smith
Efrem is the president of World Impact, an urban-missions and church-planting organization. He is a teaching pastor as Bayside Midtown Church in Sacramento, California and the author of Jump, The Post-Black & Post-White Church, and (with Phil Jackson) The Hip-Hop Church.
“We are not to simply become citizens of the Kingdom of God and then wait for the day of our supernatural transport into eternity. We are to participate in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, right here and right now.
…this isn’t an easy journey (dying to self never is) but when empowered by God, our lives can provide a glimpse of what eternal right-side up community looks like.”
Don’t defend the kingdom, die for it.