ReJesus
Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch
Hendrickson Publishers, January 2009, 216 pp., $19.95, http://www.hendrickson.com/
I love Jesus. From my dashboard Buddy Christ (from Dogma) to my Wal-Mart talking action figure, from “Superstar” Ted Neely to Jack Black’s Viral Video, I’m a big Jesus fan.
Now along comes this book and makes me re-think everything I know about Jesus. (Perhaps “Re-introduce” is a better term.) Frost and Hirsch have written a challenging book with seminary-level teaching while throwing in references to Will Ferrell movies.
What if we looked at Jesus, the Man and His teachings, outside of the package in which we as a church have so carefully boxed Him? (I know. What a concept for a church, right?) Think you know Jesus? Think again. Are you willing to commit yourself to being changed and knowing a Jesus beyond the comfy flannel-graph Savior? Get a cup of coffee; go to a quiet place; and get ready to have your thinking re-thunk.
