Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith
Glenn Packiam
David C. Cook, 2009, 224 pp., $14.99
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If you’re anything like Glenn Packiam, you know what it’s like to put God in a box and think you have Him figured out.
In Secondhand Jesus, a transparent Packiam shares how God dismantled his many boxes and derailed his attempts to be a good Christian while relationally keeping Jesus at arm’s length. The author invites readers to share in a similar dismantling experience with Christ and boldly challenges us to roll up our sleeves and wrestle with God, which is something we can’t do from a distance. He explains that this kind of wrestling is full contact and puts us in uncomfortably close proximity to God, but this is the very place where we’re transformed.
So if you find yourself in a pleasant place of spiritual comfort, complacency and safety, this book will ruin you; but you won’t regret it!
