{"id":12376,"date":"2019-09-13T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12376"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:58:31","slug":"book-review-the-forgotten-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12376","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Forgotten Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TheForgottenJesus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12377\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TheForgottenJesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TheForgottenJesus.jpg 329w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TheForgottenJesus-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Forgotten-Jesus-Western-Christians-Eastern\/dp\/0310529239\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=forgotten+jesus&amp;qid=1568400061&amp;sr=8-1\">The Forgotten Jesus<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/replicate.org\/the-team\/\">Robby Gallaty<\/a>\u00a0is an incredible book!\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful for Gallaty&#8217;s\u00a0work in helping the reader truly understand the context of the Bible by cultivating a deeper awareness of Jewish and Hebraic culture at the time the Bible was written. I\u2019m normally a fast reader, but I\u2019ve been working on this one for about three weeks because there is just so much to chew on. My favorite part&#8230;the book continues to cause me to set it down in favor of rereading a familiar passage in my Bible with a fresh understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I highlighted several things while reading and have posted those notes below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>In many ways, the Old Testament commandments can be understood as the pencil sketch of God\u2019s purposes, and that makes Jesus the proverbial paint. \u00a0The full picture of who God was and what he was doing was not complete when God gave the Jewish people the Law and established his relationship with them in the Old Testament. \u00a0It isn\u2019t until we get to Jesus that God begins to fill in the colors between the roughly sketched lines. \u00a0He brings the image into high definition. p. 18<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In order to understand the mind of Jesus in his Jewish context, we should follow the advice of Pilate when he presented Jesus to the crowd: \u201cBehold the man.\u201d Our goal is to get an accurate picture of the man and the type of ministry he modeled. \u00a0We do this because we want to grow as his disciples. \u00a0The Bible tells us that believes grow in their spiritual journeys as they, \u201cwith unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.\u201d (2 Corinthians 3:18 CSB) p. 26<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Another way to clarify the difference between the more dynamic way of thinking of Hebrew culture and our more abstract approach today is to say that Hebrews focused not simply on how a thing looks but on describing its purpose\u2014how it is used. p. 30<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hebrews are concerned with how something is created and developed and the purpose that it serves. \u00a0Usefulness trumps aesthetics. p. 31<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Another key cultural difference between the East and the West is in our conception of our place in society. p. 32<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It is interesting to note that Abraham and Sarah\u2019s count is found in the Law, and Elkanah\u2019s and Hannah\u2019s account is found in the Prophets, a reminder that both the Law and the Prophets paved the way for the Messiah. p. 68<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>What we need to know about John is that he was a unique individual, born to do something incredible, and that he did his job with humility. p. 70<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>7 I AM Statements about Jesus from the Book of John<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the bread of life.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+6%3A35%2C+41%2C+48%2C+51&amp;version=NKJV\">John 6:35, 41, 48, 51<\/a>) As bread sustains physical life, so Christ offers and sustains spiritual life.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the light of the world.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+8%3A12&amp;version=NKJV\">John 8:12<\/a>) To a world lost in darkness, Christ offers Himself as a guide.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the door of the sheep.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+10%3A7%2C9&amp;version=NKJV\">John 10:7,9<\/a>) Jesus protects His followers as shepherds protect their flocks from predators.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the resurrection and the life.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+11%3A25&amp;version=NKJV\">John 11:25<\/a>) Death is not the final word for those in Christ.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the good shepherd.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+10%3A11%2C+14&amp;version=NKJV\">John 10:11, 14<\/a>) Jesus is committed to caring and watching over those who are His.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the way, the truth, and the life.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+14%3A6&amp;version=NKJV\">John 14:6<\/a>) Jesus is the source of all truth and knowledge about God.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am the true vine.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+15%3A1%2C+5&amp;version=NKJV\">John 15:1, 5<\/a>) By attached ourselves to Christ, we enable His life to flow in and through us. Then we cannot help but bear fruit that will honor the Father. p. 94<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>John 18:4-6:\u201dWhen Jesus speaks this same phrase, &#8216;I am\u2019, in his sea-crossing epiphany it serves to underscore the claim of divine identity that is implicitly present in the story as a whole.\u201d (Richard Hays). It is easy for Western ears to miss these subtle hints. \u00a0That is why we must learn to bend our ears to an Eastern dialect to catch the full meaning behind this encounter. \u00a0The message that comes across is unmistakably clear: Jesus Christ is more than just a man. \u00a0He is the Creator God, the God of Israel, and the I Am of the burning bush. \u00a0He is fully human, yet he is fully God simultaneously. p. 124<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>With Psalm 22 in mind, Jesus is exclaiming from the cross, \u201cWe win in the end! \u00a0I know it looks bleak now, but God is going to use this for victory.\u201d 202<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ultimately the goal of this knowledge is not to fill your head with useless facts, but to instill in you a hunger to read and study God\u2019s Word. p. 204<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forgotten Jesus\u00a0by Robby Gallaty\u00a0is an incredible book!\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful for Gallaty&#8217;s\u00a0work in helping the reader truly understand the context of the Bible by cultivating a deeper awareness of Jewish and Hebraic culture at the time the Bible was written. I\u2019m normally a fast reader, but I\u2019ve been working on this one for about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,25,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-education","category-generosity","category-integrity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}