ReJesus Quotes

“Surely the challenge for the church today is to be taken captive by the agenda of Jesus, rather than seeking to mold him to fit our agendas, no matter how noble they might be.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution, once surveyed a group of people who identified themselves as “strong followers of Jesus” and asked them, “Did Jesus spend time with the poor?” Around 80 percent replied in the affirmative, leaving a disturbing 20 percent of so-called strong followers of Jesus who think Jesus didn’t spend time with the poor. That this could be the case should remind us of the levels of Christian ignorance about our founder and Lord. But the more disturbing fact is that Claiborne asked the same group, “Do you spend time with the poor?” Only 2 percent replied that they did. There is for many an almost complete disconnect between our beliefs about Jesus and our actions. This disconnection lies at the nub of the problem facing the church.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“you know you’ve remade Jesus in your own image when he hates all the same people you hate!”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“One is not required to be, or to intend to be, a disciple in order to become a Christian, and one may remain a Christian without any signs of progress toward or in discipleship. Contemporary Western churches do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership—either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church. . . . So far as the visible Christian institutions of our day are concerned, discipleship clearly is optional. . . . Churches are therefore filled with “undiscipled disciples.” “Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Through the eyes of Jesus, we will see God differently, no longer as a distant father figure, but through the paradigm of the missio Dei to find the sent and sending God. Second, we will see the church differently, no longer as a religious institution but as a community of Jesus followers devoted to participating in his mission. We call this the participatio Christi. And third, through Jesus’ eyes we will see the world afresh, not simply as fallen or depraved but as bearing the mark of the imago Dei–the image of God.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Therefore, we propose a rediscovery of Christology that includes a preoccupation with the example and teaching of Jesus for the purposes of emulation by his followers.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“If the heart of Christian spirituality is to increasingly become like our founder, then an authentic comprehension of Jesus becomes critical.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“It wasn’t until the church was unleashed as a community of human beings in relationship with God through Jesus that the richness of God’s wisdom could be appreciated.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Eph 3:10–11)”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“The renewal of the church in our time is dependent on the renewal of the gospel. And the renewal of the gospel requires the recovery of the centrality of Jesus for faith and thought. We must reJesus our theology as well as our churches.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Jesus is the center point where God’s claim and human response correlate.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Our point is that to reJesus the church, we need to go back to the daring, radical, strange, wonderful, inexplicable, unstoppable, marvelous, unsettling, disturbing, caring, powerful God-Man.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“for the Christian movement, the founder must be able to be seen in the lives of the found. This is the process of embodiment, which is so essential to movements.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Those who are taken captive by Jesus see mission not merely as a practice preferred by God but as an aspect of his very character. He is mission. Core to understanding God’s nature is the realization that God cannot not be about the business of mission.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

“Let’s get our Christology right and then dare to place all our deeply held desires for how to do church at its service. Not vice versa.”
― Michael Frost, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church