Before I review chapter one of ReJesus, I wanted to share some thoughts that Jonathan had here and here. Also, here is a link to an interview by Alan Hirsch via Ed Stetzer. 

Quotes from chapter one: 

“By dying for us to set us free from the penalty of our sinfulness, he doesn’t nullify the call to good works and godly living.” 

“The process of reJesusing the church will begin with a rediscovery of the fierce and outrageous life of Jesus.”

“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 the world fresh, not simply as fallen or depraved but as bearing the mark of the imago Dei-image of God.”

“When we see God as Jesus understood him, we see a God so devoted to his broken planet that he issues himself forth to redeem it.” 

“It us one of our greatest mistakes to equate the church with the kingdom of God. The kingdom is much broader than the church-it is cosmic in scope. The church is perhaps the primary agent of the kingdom but must not be equated fully with it. We need to be able to see the kingdom activity wherever it expresses itself and join with God in it.”

My thoughts: 

The authors are laying a foundation in chapter one. Basically they are promoting the idea that God is on a mission (missio Dei) and he calls us to be ambassadors for that mission. Yet, we’ve (current Western culture) have domesticated Jesus and replaced him with religion.  Therefore we need to be “reJesused” so we can get back to the original plan of God and participate (participatio Christi) and bring redemption to humanity which had been created in the imago Dei-image of God.

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