Jesus Wants to Save Christiansby Rob Bell & Don Golden (Zondervan)
Bell and Golden present the overarching narrative Scripture as a grand story of redemption. They contend that in recognizing and taking part in this redemptive mission, Christians are saved from empty, irrelevant, and unfulfilling religiosity. I found the final chapter and epilogue to be the best part of the book.
"In a world in which there twenty-seven million slaves, in a world in which 840 million people will go to bed hungry tonight because they cannot afford one meal, in a world in which one million people commit suicide every year, in a world in which today nearly 4,500 people in Africa will die of AIDS, Jesus wants to save our church from the exile of irrelevance. If we have any resources, any power, any voice, any influence, any energy, we must convert them into blessing for those who have no power, no voice, no influence." (p. 174)
