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If you can check off any two of the following statements, Jesus Circles may be the book for you.
- I am seeking an authentic way to walk with courage into the uncertainties of the third millennium.
- How can I can live abundantly in the midst of the domination systems that are death dealing, violent, unjust and sometimes very painful?
- I have passed beyond traditional religion.
- The traditional notions of God don't match my reality
- How can I learn to live in a permanent state of uncertainty?
- I am tired of violence and want to be a peacemaker.
- I have difficulty accepting traditional theology.
- I see so much injustice and want to help make the world be different.
- Until recently I called myself a Christian and have now dissociated myself from traditional, evangelical or fundamental churches.
- I am impaled on Jesus and I can't seem to avoid his call to live in a new way
- How can I be a part of the world wide communities working to bring about a new Human Being and a New Human Society?
- I am in love with Jesus, but not his followers.
- I have concluded that contemporary religious organizations are, by and large, dysfunctional, codependent, death dealing, highly political, bureaucratic, patriarchal, literalistic organizations which are now dying and, therefore, fundamentally oriented toward institutional survival.
- I have encountered the new Jesus and found an energizing relationship with his dynamic charisma and cannot find a nurturing fellowship.
- I am seeking ways of adapting the teaching of Jesus to the realities of the postmodern era.
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Jesus Circles
presents a new way we can create a new social order based on Jesus' vision, message and program.
Peter Lawson peels away layers of interpretive theological material that obscure Jesus' powerful healing and liberating program.
What comes to light is his radical ministry: an engagement with the peasants of Galilee that so undermined the Roman Imperial domination system that they killed him.
Jesus' new way of being human constructs a new world order in which the abundance of the earth is justly shared and violence is no longer sanctioned. In the circle process we can experience a new manifestation of Jesus' program.
The book gives specific instructions on forming Jesus Circles that embody healing, justice, abundance and peace in the midst of the domination systems of today. |
