So, I rarely get this excited about reading a book, but just from reading the back of Rob Bell's new book, "Jesus Wants to Save Christians", I have to admit I am a little jazzed.
As many of you know, I am a Rob Bell fan, but his author-ship is not what excites me about this book...and for all I know, I could be disappointed once the reading starts....I guess we'll find out.
Here is the summary from the back of the book.
"There is a church in our area that recently added an addition to their building which cost more than $20 million. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.
This book is about those two numbers.
It's a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity; it's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest; it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate, and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.
It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers."
Wow. That really resonates with me. Should be interesting....I'll keep ya updated. ; )
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