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The Jesus Of Suburbia

Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle?

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson
  • 13.9 x 21.5 x 2.1 cm

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Dissatisfied by the sugar-coated image of Jesus?

Mike Erre traces how culture has shaped Jesus to fit its ideals

The Jesus Of Suburbia shows how Christ was never supposed to fit around our lives

Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle?

Like the first-century Pharisees, we've reduced Christianity to a set of propositional beliefs. Truth is, we've gotten away from what it really means to be a Christian. In 'The Jesus of Suburbia', Mike Erre reveals that we've created a Jesus in our own image. In a fresh, startling manner, Erre helps us understand that the real Jesus is calling us to live, act, and think in ways that overturn the status quo.

"Expect no sugar-coated sweetness about 'felt needs' and in-church coffee bars from Erre, pastor of teaching at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa, Calif. Expect instead compelling discussion of how the Christian church has lost sight of the revolutionary teaching and love of Jesus. 'Much of the message of American Christianity presents Jesus as the purveyor of the American Dream,' he says. American Christians, he claims, have reduced Jesus to a study of risk management; we want him to be 'predictable and safe.' Erre also uses the adjectives 'insecure, threatened, naive, simplistic, mean and shortsighted' to describe many of today's churches. He lambastes our love of theology instead of Jesus, our contentment with 'simply knowing about him instead of knowing him.' While this protest continues in the vein of other recent books that take a hard look at Jesus and the church (Jesus Mean and Wild; Out of Your Comfort Zone), it offers a fresh look at how the American church must begin 'demonstrating the message of Christ,' not merely explaining it. After all, says Erre, 'if you follow Jesus, you follow the most radical man who ever existed.'"--Publishers Weekly

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  • Author

    Mike Erre

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Thomas Nelson

  • Published

    September 2006

  • Edition

    annotated edition

  • Weight

    203g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    13.9 x 21.5 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780849900594

  • ISBN-10

    084990059X

  • Eden Code

    123260

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    Like the first-century Pharisees, we've reduced Christianity to a set of propositional beliefs. Truth is, we've gotten away from what it really means to be a Christian. In The Jesus of Suburbia, Mike Erre reveals that we've created a Jesus in our own image. In a fresh, startling manner, Erre helps us understand that the real Jesus is calling us to live, act, and think in ways that overturn the status quo. Publisher This is a great book, very easy to read and full of revolutionary zeal that wants to take down that plastic jesus and put up the real Jesus, the Jesus of dissent, the Jesus whose message was so shocking and revolutionary that it changed the world and spread like wildfire but was never a comfortable cosy tradition that allowed people to sit in idle wealth and go along with the status quo. He talks of finding Jesus and not just subscribing to church. Do I agree with all he says? - Heck no. Is the book worth reading ? - Definitely.

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