Robin Meyers 2009 Harper Collins

I found his views on Jesus the Pre Easter man as opposed to the Post Easter God inspirational. His observations provide a way of challenging the orthodoxy of any faith community by reminding us of the behaviours and messages of the itinerant preacher from Galilee.

  • Highlights
  • “Taking the Bible seriously is not the same as taking it literally”
  • “Christianity is experiential NOT philosophical”
  • “We must follow & NOT worship & talk”
  • “Rigorous scholarship takes place in complete isolation from the church”
  • “The creedal road took a backward step in the 4th century when a 1st century spiritual insurgency was seduced into marrying it’s original oppressor”
  • “The heart of Christianity is being betrayed. JESUS NEEDS SAVING FROM the Church”
  • Theological systems are absent in the earliest Gospels, mostly illiterate, uneducated peasant labourers were recruited & sent out to practice spiritual healing without a license.
  • Jesus’s judgement criteria is ETHICAL not THEOLOGICAL Matt 25:40
  • Jesus’s inclusion of women was completely radical
  • Fundamentalism is surging. It’s goal is a return to pre-enlightenment, a world where everyone knows their place and remains in it, especially women, minorities, gays & scientists
  • For Israel the most important questions were never theological BUT ethical – How goes it for the widow, orphan & the stranger

A Church of the Followers of Jesus

  • Will teach wisdom not doctrine
  • Will focus on ethics not theology
  • Will seek truth wherever it may be found
  • Will practice faith as the freedom to serve something higher & more important than oneself
  • Will be a beloved community
  • Its members should look and act differently from those who are not part of the community

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