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Getting Jesus Wrong: Giving Up Spiritual Vitamins and Checklist Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

If you met Jesus today, and he asked, “What do you want from me?” what would you say? When Jesus asked that question long ago, he got a variety of answers. Some wanted a miracle, some a theological debate, some a sign that he was the Messiah, some wanted power, some wanted just to see him, and others wanted to get rid of him. We are much the same aren’t we? We all want something from Jesus. We...

God’s love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. That sounds like Yoda-talk, I know. But read it again, slowly if you have to, because that statement is solid gold.1 It was exactly what I needed to hear. That short theological quip whetted my appetite for more of the same goodness. A theological shift began in my thinking, and it came at a good time. I’d been intentionally shooing away a spiritual restlessness I’d felt for a while. Some might fairly call it cognitive dissonance.