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	ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch Hendrickson Publishers, 2008 - 204 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

These questions take us to the core of what the church is all about. Rather than reformation, the authors call their task re-founding the church because it raises the issue of the Church's true Founder or Foundation. This theme is of particular importance at the dawn of the twenty-first century as many attempt to address Christianity's endemic and long trended decline in the West. The authors feel that a spiritual, theological, missional, and existential crisis looms in the West.

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A Much Needed Book

The church is much like a jet airplane. There is an enigmatic power about a jet as it roars across the sky using its power to accomplish its mission, to reach its destination. Now imagine that jet, with all of its power, suddenly void of its instruments, void of its compass. In that scenario, not only does the jet become useless, it becomes dangerous. The church minus Jesus is like the jet minus its instruments. Sadly, this is the state of much of the church today--useless and dangerous. The church, as strange as it may sound, is in need of Jesus. In ReJesus, Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch provide the church with exactly what it needs...Jesus.

In a quick two hundred pages, Frost & Hirsch weave together theory, stories, examples, and diagrams that cause you to think, listen, dream, and pray. Above all, they cause you to question the place of Jesus in your ministry. Is Jesus the center of all that you do? Is he the source of mission? Is he the life of your community, or has Jesus been pushed to the margins in favor of other lords, such as religion or Christ-less theology? Having read previous books by both authors, I'm convinced that this book is the most important because it is about the most important topic of all. For those interested in missional church, this book serves as a welcome reminder that apart from Jesus there is no mission nor church. I will be using this book for years to come as we train leaders and church planters for mission.

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Let's "ReJesus" the Church!

ReJesus, by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, is a book about seriously studying the Gospels in order to reform the Church into the image of Jesus Christ. Too often, especially in the USA, the Church has been made into the image of predominant culture. The same can be said of Jesus Himself. We create God in our image. in ReJesus Frost and Hirsch confront us with the Jesus of the Gospels, who is wilder than our Judeo-Christian culture would like. The Jesus of the Gospel means business.

I recommend this book. The illustrations and comparative studies in the lives of radical Jesus followers are also to be commended.

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Great Book, Wrong Subtitle

Like everything by Frost and Hirsch, this is a great book, and well worth reading. However, I didn't give it five stars for one tiny reason - the subtitle was misleading.

Maybe it's just me, but the subtitle of the book "A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church" led me to believe that the book would show the wild side of Jesus in the Gospels, and how we, as followers of Jesus, can live more like Him in our world.

The book did a great job explaining why we should study the gospels and learn to live like Jesus, but didn't do a great job explaining how Jesus was wild, or how we could study the gospels to discover the wild Jesus.

Glimpes of the wild Jesus did come through. On pages 109-110, for example, they retold the story of Jesus confronting the demoniac near Gadara. It got my blood racing as I realized how wild Jesus really was in that situation! This is what I thought the book was going to contain.

Once I realized what the book was really about, I really enjoyed it, and would highly recommend it. The message it contains is sorely needed in Christianity today.

And who knows? Maybe Frost and Hirsch will come out with another volume entitled "ReJesus: reReading the Gospels for a Missional Church."

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Moving to Missional Through the Restoration of a Wild Jesus

This book is from the authors of "The Shaping of Things to Come." "The Shaping" dealt with the practical methodology of missional outreach. "ReJesus" builds on this foundation with more of a theological framework. The major premise of the book was the need to "reJesus" the community or the world. The authors mean by this that a restoration of the true image of Christ must be presented to people. The authors feel that culture has made Jesus into a weak figure, and the missional church must reclaim the forceful Jesus of the Gospel. The chapters are interesting, especially the section about the development of artwork portraying Jesus throughout the centuries. There was also great insight into the nature of Jesus in regards to the nature of man. A person's concept of Christ is often tied to baggage from the past or misconceptions of the nature of God. A great quote is "Tell me about your Jesus, and I can tell you about yourself." There is a lot of truth to this. We too often make Jesus in support of whatever we deem important. This book might not give more ideas on doing missional evangelism, but it will provide great material and support for some of the missional projects within the congregation. An interesting read.

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ReCalibrate Your Life Through ReJesus

This book is a difficult read for many. The authors could have made it much easier to deliver the same message. That being said however, it is an amazing book and like The SHACK is a life changer for those caught up in the formality and chains of organized religion. This book will forever change how you view the God-Man called Jesus and if you are not a follower already you will be if you have an open heart. In today's world of instant gratification and "me" mentality Jesus is a real person you can connect to. If you have avoided the traditional idea of church, if you are a rebel at heart but believe inside there is a God you will fall in love with the "Wild Messiah" Jesus Christ.

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