Blogthruabook: The Challenge of Jesus

Today I am launching a new feature on Rethynk and I am calling it Blogthruabook (pronouced, “blog THROUGH a book”). Over the next few weeks I will be reading a book I have been meaning to for a long time and posting on each chapter my thoughts. The first installment of this feature is N.T. Wright’s, The Challenge of Jesus. This book comes highly recommended by friends and after a season of reading secular, social-justice books, I am looking forward to some soul food. I invite you to join with me in this read.

I picked up Challenge of Jesus (CoJ from now on) a few months back and knew right away I wasn’t ready for it. I was busy, as I always am, and felt I couldn’t give this book the time and thought it needed. But today, I am ready. After reading the preface and chapter one, I can already tell CoJ comes at a great time for me. Wright declares in the initial pages that he wants to refocus Christian thought on the “quest for the historical Jesus and that by asking the questions, “Who was Jesus?” and “What did He accomplish?” we are participating in basic Christian discipleship. I can get with that. Read more