Book discussion

ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

I must confess that I have a tendency to see Jesus through my own version of “the way things should be.” However, if I look at the fullest expression of the Jesus revealed in the gospels, I encounter the One, who not only walks with me, but changes me.

One of my insights into Jesus is that he never fussed at the sinners who gathered around him. He would eat with them, heal them, accept them and forgive them. He would even instruct them “to go and sin no more,” but he was never “in their face” with the news of the Kingdom of God.

However, on a regular basis, he was arguing with the religious leaders. There’s this piece of scripture that’s right in the midst of one such argument that haunts me every time I read it. The passage is Matthew 21:28-31. Take a moment to read it … What do you think? Has the church become like the second son?

I wish we could have a conversation around what it means to be the church. I recently read ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, and I recommend this book as a resource to help churches live more fully into the communities we’ve been called to be in Christ. They point out that we often live into our own understandings of Jesus without seeing the whole picture of his person and mission.

What, then, would it look like for us to encounter fully with the realization that Jesus reveals what it means to be God and what it means to be human? Would we encounter our unique mission and then structure and restructure the church for that mission?

ReJesus helps people begin the Christian conversation with Christology, move to missiology and end with ecclesiology. Imagine what churches might be if we were formed around the mission God gives us in Christ!

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