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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...

of heaven, that is, of God, being brought to bear in the present world. Thy kingdom come, said Jesus, thy will be done, on earth as in heaven. Jesus’ contemporaries knew that the creator God intended to bring justice and peace to his world here and now. The question was, how, when and through whom? With a certain oversimplification we can trace easily enough the three options open to Jews in Jesus’ day. If you go down the Jordan valley from Jericho to Masada, you can see evidence of all of them.
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