promotion: "ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church"

Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch put together a great reminder in focusing in the importance and centrality of Christ in our relationship with the Father.

The church often becomes so focused on itself, it forgets the purpose of it's original function. Jesus called us to make disciples (of Himself.) He is the way, the truth, and the life. Whenever we ignore the centrality of Jesus in our faith (and importance of him being the only way to the Father), we move to a place that Jesus nor any of the other apostles intended for us to go. We must continue to look to Jesus as our savior, but also our teacher (or in more of a Jewish sense, our Rabbi). ReJesus encourages us to remember that our lives will never bring to surface questions that Jesus cannot and did not address. Jesus reveals the nature of the Father, he teaches the Kingdom of God, and his multiplicity methods of discipleship continue to scream success throughout the course of history. This book grounded me, and reminded me that I am called to be a disciple of Jesus.

Very good read!

Plus: Their discussion on Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy is amazing. May we not consume ourselves with arguments about orthodoxy that we forget to engage in orthopraxy!