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A Western Jesus: The Wayward Americanization of Christ and the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is the Jesus of the modern western civilization the same Jesus found in the Bible? Is what we understand him to be in the United States and Europe the same as what’s perceived in Africa or the underground church of China? How can one person pray for a great parking space while another is praying for just enough food or safety to survive that day? A Western Jesus speaks to the western world’s...

read. By the time we arrived at Copenhagen, Denmark, I had completed my assignment. Yes, I had questions, but once I discovered that salvation had nothing to do with how good or religious I was, I got on my knees and called on Christ to save me. I’m not sure what Shakespeare meant when he said, “There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark,” but for me it was the birthplace of my soul. It was where my pilgrimage began. The scales had fallen from my eyes (see Acts 9:18), and I began to see life
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