Following Jesus: In an Age of Hypocrisy

We live in a time when many view the church as a relic of ancient traditions and cosmologies often reactionary mean-spirited nationalist and racist. They see those who call themselves Christians reacting in fear to the changes around them rather than like Jesus boldly declaring and living out Gods compassion and justice. Some who view themselves as nonbelievers point out often with great clarity the distance between so-called Christian witness and the teaching of Jesus. This book takes us back to the first followers of Jesus and their attraction to Jesus and his teaching. It reexamines what they encountered in Jesus that led them to follow him and it analyzes the dynamics of following. This exploration becomes a call to let Jesus lead us into Gods presence and liberating action. By doing so we experience a stripping away of our false religiosity misplaced commitments and idolatries. As we join with others in a community of Jesuss followers gathered by Jesus to be sent out we exercise true society-altering witness.