false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209583557m/2940276.jpg 2940276 4 There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book 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. 3546239 1 10 2008 Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile total:372|5:126|4:142|3:79|2:23|1:2| 372 1483 761 95 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 20:06:37 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 22:13:37 -0800 2008 1
Egypt.

My wife and I lived in an “Egypt” for a large portion of 2008.

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That said, Rob Bell paints a beautiful, poetic manifesto (for all the reviewers compla...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 08:32:39 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 08:39:21 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 07:44:37 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 07:53:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 06:25:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 11:29:12 -0700 2009
But even though at times it felt on the edge of thi...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 11:13:37 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 07:00:54 -0800 2009
The storyline is as follows:

The Egyptians oppressed the Isrealites as slaves and ruled over them ruthlessly in order to protect the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:45:38 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 10:11:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Feb 19 13:16:34 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 13:24:38 -0800 2009
1)His message was the truth, but both Beth...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 10:31:47 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 07:54:27 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:21:28 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 06:07:39 -0800 2009 Rob Bell's previous books as well as what he does with Nooma, so it comes at no surprise that i enjoyed Jesus Wants To Save Christians.

Bell and co-author Don Golden paint a nice picture of the dysfunctional first family found in Genesis and about how God provided a 'better w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 19:22:53 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 19:29:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:17:06 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:19:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 13:50:57 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 13:54:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:23:57 -0800 2009 Mon May 11 06:12:09 -0700 2009
I can't say that I agreed with everything that the book presented - I questioned a lot of their interpretations of specific Bible passages...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 20:23:27 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 21 18:46:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 20:23:27 -0800 2009 here). In short, the idea is that we are sinners and, like the Israelites, need to be "called out" of our bondage (in this case, our slavery to sin). Bell draws parallels between Old...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:08:24 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 11:31:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:19:20 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 04:37:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 15:18:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 16:25:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 19 08:02:08 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:24:31 -0700 2009 once more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 15:17:31 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 14:06:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2940276