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litcritreader 's review for:
The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey
This book gave me a lot to think about.
My favorite passage: "Jesus' message of the kingdom had little in common with the politics of polarization" (p. 244). Yancey says, "I worry about the recent surge of power among U.S. Christians, who seem to be focusing more and more on political means" (246). Since the book was written 20 years ago, its author must be much more worried today.
Yancey asks some searching questions, such as, "how is it that the church has now become a community of respectability, where the down-and-out no longer feel welcome? The middle-class church many of us know today bears little resemblance to the diverse group of social rejects described in the gospels and the Book of Acts" (155-6). "Increasingly, I fear, the church is viewed as the enemy of sinners" (259).
My favorite passage: "Jesus' message of the kingdom had little in common with the politics of polarization" (p. 244). Yancey says, "I worry about the recent surge of power among U.S. Christians, who seem to be focusing more and more on political means" (246). Since the book was written 20 years ago, its author must be much more worried today.
Yancey asks some searching questions, such as, "how is it that the church has now become a community of respectability, where the down-and-out no longer feel welcome? The middle-class church many of us know today bears little resemblance to the diverse group of social rejects described in the gospels and the Book of Acts" (155-6). "Increasingly, I fear, the church is viewed as the enemy of sinners" (259).