{"id":38101,"date":"2020-07-27T23:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38101"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:02:19","slug":"review-of-a-more-christlike-way-by-bradley-jersak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38101","title":{"rendered":"Review of A More Christlike Way, by Bradley Jersak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A More Christlike Way<\/p>\n

A More Beautiful Faith<\/em><\/p>\n

by Bradley Jersak<\/p>\n

CWRpress, 2019. 252 pages.
\nReview written July 27, 2020, from my own copy
\nStarred Review
\n2020 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>: #4 Christian Nonfiction<\/p>\n

A sequel to his wonderful book, A More Christlike God<\/a><\/em>, here Bradley Jersak takes a look at how Christians live out their faith \u2013 and how they can be more like Jesus as they do.<\/p>\n

This work rests on the foundation that God is a God of love, and that Jesus displayed that. Within that, he looks at some counterfeit ways of doing Christianity, and then seven facets of a more beautiful faith: Radical self-giving, radical hospitality, radical unity, radical recovery, radical peacemaking with radical forgiveness, radical surrender, and radical compassion with radical justice.<\/p>\n

He presents the Jesus Way as a journey \u2013 not something anyone will ever accomplish perfectly. This means that every Christian can find something to work on in this book.<\/p>\n

I love his Finale. He took passages from Isaiah, from Micah, and from Jesus’ words to tell us about the dreams our Abba dreams for us.<\/p>\n

Our focus is to be single-minded and clear-eyed on Abba\u2019s<\/em> dream for our world as our first agenda. Our now<\/em> agenda.<\/p>\n

It has nothing to do with grandiose claims of outer-galactic revivals or \u201cthe next big move of God.\u201d It\u2019s about watching the mustard seed grow by Grace<\/em> and participating in what Grace<\/em> is up to . . .<\/p>\n

One poor person at a time,
\nOne naked person at a time,
\nOne prisoner at a time,
\nOne stranger at a time,
\nOne hospital visit at a time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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