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The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is is unavailable, but you can change that!

This text answers the skepticism about the need for a historical understanding of Jesus and shows how this can affect Christian discipleship today. It explores Jesus’ preaching, his Messiahship and death, and his self-understanding in relation to God. The book goes on to ask: What does this imply? What should this mean for us? What, in fact, is the mission of the church grounded in this Jesus and...

happens. The Jews of Jesus’ day, as is well-known, were living under foreign rule and had been for several centuries. The worst thing about that was not the high taxation, the alien laws, the brutality of oppression and so on, awful though that often was. The worst thing was that the foreigners were pagans. If Israel was truly God’s people, why were the pagans ruling over her? If Israel was called to be God’s true humanity, surely these foreign nations were like the animals over which Adam and Eve
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