Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596445157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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What do the life and teaching of Jesus have to say about the most critical global problems in our world today? McLaren asks, Shouldn’t a message purporting to be the best news in the world be doing better than this?” What he sets forth in this provocative, unsettling work is a form of Christian faith that is holistic, integral, balanced, that offers good news for both the living and the dying, that speaks of God’s grace at work both in this life and the life to come, both to individuals and to societies and the planet as a whole.”
McLaren and his wife, Grace, live in Florida and have four adult children.Lloyd James has been narrating since 1996, has recorded over six hundred books in almost every genre, has earned six AudioFile Earphones Awards, and is a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. McLaren, hailed as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine, is a speaker, social justice activist, pastor, and the author of A New Kind of Christianity, A Generous O
"Jesus and life issues today" according to G. Stephen Goode. Two underlying questions are the reason for this book by Brian McLaren.1. What are the world's top problems today and 2. What do the life and message of Jesus have to say about these issues? This is a continuation of Brian's previous book, "The Secret Message of Jesus" about the Kingdom of God and what does it look like today.Brian traveled around the world in the writing of this book, talking to church, community, business and government leaders, asking questions and listening to answers. Brian is a thinker and makes you cons. R. W. Persons said Jesus Right, not Jesus Lite. In "Everything Must Change", Brian McLaren eloquently expresses what I've felt about Jesus' message, and the manipulation of that message, since middle school. With historical research, political savvy, and personal experience, McLaren thoroughly documents the ways in which Christianity could lead the way out of war, hunger, poverty, and environmental decay. And how instead power uses biblical interpretation and wedge issues like contraception as "weapons of mass distraction". McLaren is part of a wave, with links (which he ac. "A book to buy, not to check out." according to D. S. Adams. I have to confess that I'm not done reading it yet. I checked it out from the local library, and realized after 5 chapters that I had to own it, so as to pass it on to other people, as opposed to just giving it a quick read.The ironic part is that I was writing a sermon, where I was saying a lot of the same things, when I started reading the book. While I tend to feel odd in those moments when I realize someone else has "said it first," it showed me that McLaren is onto something that is becoming increasingly obvious to the re
The prolific author and pastor identifies the earth's four deep dysfunctions that have created a suicide machine: crises in prosperity, equity, security and spirituality. 2)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . What could change, he asks, if we applied the message of Jesus—the good news of the kingdom of God—to the world's greatest problems? Here McLaren builds on the theme of his 2006 book The Secret Message of Jesus—that bringing about the kingdom means transforming the world we live in—to propose that we create a hope insurgency. Using a close reading of the Gospels to challenge conservative evangelicals' emphasis on individual salvation, not to mention end-times theology and, by implication, the prosperity gospel, McLaren argues for establishing a beloved community based on justice, peace, equality and compassion. (Oct. All rights reserved. McLaren