Thursday, July 03, 2008

The Jesus of Suburbia

I'm reading a very thought provoking book by Mike Erre entitled The Jesus of Suburbia. This book has made me think about the revolution that Jesus represented to religion of His day and how we have gotten far away from that in our churches today. It is soundly based in scripture and it fills in a lot of the blanks that we, as 21st century Christians, cannot understand such as Jewish tradition and belief, the political landscape and cultural norms. It places Jesus' life in context and shows you the powerful message that He brought to a world in which religion was used to label and exclude people from God's grace. It makes me realize how much about religion today leans the same way.