Jesus Wants to Save Christians

Jesus Wants to Save Christians:  A Manifesto for a Church in Exile by Rob Bell

Bell quotes Anne Lamott who said, "the most powerful sermon in the world is two words: "Me too."  He goes on to describe what the church could be: "A church is not an organization that surveys its demographic to find out what the market is demanding at this particular moment and then adjusts its strategy to meet that consumer niche. The way of Jesus is about our descent. Its about our death. It's our willingness to join the world in its suffering, it's our participation in the new humanity, it's our weakness calling out to others in their weakness." (p. 158) This is not "religiously sanctioned despair...it's the church saying there is always hope for the poor, for the rich, for the bored, for the restless." (p. 164.)