The dissertation proposed here is the culmination of three years of my ethnographic research with members in the Los Angeles region of the International Church of Christ (ICC). The ICC is an innovative, highly demanding, racially integrated, Christian restoration movement that has thrived both in the United States and around the world. At the same time, it has garnered great criticism for its unwavering beliefs and standards of practice. This dissertation will locate the ICC into the broader literature on the restructuring of American religion, especially with regard to younger generations. Within this debate, the purpose of this dissertation is twofold. The first is to better understand, through self-reports of members, the complex experiences of being a disciple and how they contribute to our ideas about the subjective attraction to, the function and the role of changing forms of religion in contemporary American society. The second is to explore the ways in which the religious restructuring of disciples’ interpersonal relationships recasts subjective identities in an attempt to project an idealized, ethnically integrated, religious community without alienating the disciples from the pervasive youth culture legitimated through popular culture.