The Community Group I'm in (think adult men's Sunday School class) has spent the last 16 weeks going through "Not My Jesus: Reclaiming the Truth, Rejecting the Idols". Yes, this is an 8 week study, but our class tends to take our time going deep into the material each week. Author Shane Pruitt introduces the student to 8 Pseudo-Christs:
- The Moldable Jesus: a regular human being like us, not Divine, but being molded as we are by circumstances and the like.
- The Personal Genie Jesus: Quick to grant us our needs and wants, focusing on our will, not His.
- The Non-Judgmental Jesus: Ready to say, "Neither do I condemn you" but doesn't add "Go and Sin no more."
- The Participation Trophy Jesus: Accepting everybody into heaven, without us needing to do anything but be alive.
- The Distant Jesus: A Christ who doesn't pay much attention to our day by day lives.
- The Comfortable Jesus: A deity who doesn't expect us to get out of our comfort zone or challenge us.
- The Boring Jesus: A faith that doesn't have much excitement, not as appealing as the world to the believer.
- The National Jesus: A Savior who's more interested in the U.S. of A. but not so much everybody else.
This book starts with an introduction to the author, how to use the study and Bible study tips and resources, and why we can trust the Bible.Each chapter a group session guide and three personal studies. On the final page of the study book, there's a code which allows you to view a 10-15 minute video with the author explaining the lesson.
I found this an interesting study, and the videos enjoyable. I've had studies before from Lifeway which has personal studies, and I'm never sure if they're supposed to be comvered before the video and class or afterwards - I do the former.
I recommend this for personal study and more so for studying this as a group as I did, and as this book is designed to.
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