The book “the Jesus I never knew” takes a different look at Jesus Christ and how he lived. Questions are asked as to how he lived and what he believed in. it starts by tackling another question, do we really know Jesus Christ? . In today’s world he is depicted as a mister Rogers type character, but the author tries to show us that this can’t be as black and white as the church would try to make it buy asking “what government would execute mister Rogers? Also the story of Mary and the birth of the lord Jesus. The book takes a realistic look at the trouble that must have been facing Mary in her time of need that you would not hear in the

Yancey's re-creation of the Gospel story alone is worth the price of the book, but throughout its pages he also weaves in keen observations on a multitude of topics: how God relates to human suffering, why Jesus left the church to be his body, why God seems to prefer the poor, why we need to reflect on Jesus' death, to name a few. A man of broad knowledge and wide reading, Yancey introduces us to ideas about Jesus from writers such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Augustine and Luther, Barth and Kierkegaard, Chesterton and Lewis.

church today. For instant the fact the Joseph wanted to divorce Mary before the angel Michael had appeared.

The fact that she was looked upon as being unfaithful names one of the perils that they must have encountered. Jesus was a Jew and today the church try to disregard the fact that he was. Peter showed the royal bloodline of Jesus through such ancestors as Abraham. We take a look at how Jesus prevented using his power, for instant the temptation in the desert by the devil. Jesus refused to use his power in order to show his superiority he chose to do ask his father would do. God prefers to gain our obedience through love because he knows that love can only be obtained through love. We also see that only through faith can faith be found. People try to find faith through miracles. The book shows that this is not what God wants from us. He wants us to have faith and believe and through believing would we be able to have miracles.

This book helped me to grasp a different outlook of the Adventist faith. For me this was a little difficult because I grew in the church of the Nazarene, which had a great impact upon me life at such a young age. The cross over to Adventism that my mother took part in left me puzzled as a youngster. I had such question such as was this Jesus a different Jesus as to the one at my old church. I believe that because of this to this day I still haven’t really felt as at home in the religion as I did I the last. I believe that there are a lot of people out there that have the same feeling as me. And if we had had the chance to read this book at that critical moment in our lives that the cross over would have been different.

They are many that have drawn pictures of Jesus and how they belie

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