Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Imaginary Jesus

Ever wonder how you create God in your own image? Matt Mikalatos did, and so he penned an interesting tale called Imaginary Jesus, an adventure through Portland and one man's willingness to declare all the ways he had designed a Jesus that fit his expectations.

This book is meant to be fun to read--many may cringe at some of the images of Jesus in the book, but to react to the idea of political Jesus or New Age Jesus is to miss the point--Mikalatos is trying to help us all see how we shape and design our image of Jesus to be safe, not to reflect the God of love, grace and mercy we find in the pages of Scripture, in the world around us.

Are you willing to explore the ways you have rounded off some of the sharper edges of Jesus? Are you willing to admit that perhaps you spend more time thinking about how you are unworthy of his love than you do remembering that the God who knit you together in the womb is the same God who died on the cross for you?

It's a fun adventure, but one with great depth--and hopefully it will get the wheels turning, forcing you to think about just who Jesus Christ was, is and forever shall be, and how your life is lived as an offering to Christ.


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