Editing Jesus
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Editing Jesus

Confronting the Distorted Faith of the American Church

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Editing Jesus

Confronting the Distorted Faith of the American Church

About this book

We need Jesus. The whole Jesus.

The American church is in decline. Secularism is fast gaining traction in culture. Ministry leaders and Christians who love the church are rightly concerned about this momentum. We’re scrambling to find solutions.

Longtime Christian journalist, researcher, and ministry leader Rick Lawrence believes that the driving force propelling the church into irrelevance is its propensity reduce Jesus. Deeply researched and comprehensively sourced, Editing Jesus, explores the 8 ways the Jesus of the contemporary church has been edited to fit the spirit of the age. Lawrence writes on:

The Co-Mingling of Kingdoms

The Marginalization of the Poor

The Golden-Calfing of Materialism

The Dismissing of the Supernatural

The Siren-Song of Platforming

The De-Prioritizing of Justice . . . and more

This book is for every person who loves Jesus and His church—who longs to see the real Jesus worshiped and exalted. And it’s for every person who wonders how the wheels came off Western Christianity and harbors a hunger that goes unmet in the church. When we discover and return to the unedited Jesus, it’s impossible to remain unchanged.

The church begins and ends with Jesus. The whole Jesus.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The Comingling of Kingdoms
  7. 2. The Softening of Hard
  8. 3. The Marginalization of the Poor
  9. 4. The Problem with Principles
  10. 5. The Golden-Calfing of Materialism
  11. 6. The Dismissing of the Supernatural
  12. 7. The Siren Song of Platforming
  13. 8. The De-prioritizing of Justice
  14. Epilogue: The De-fanging of Jesus
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes