The Jesus I Never Knew

What takes place when an esteemed messiahian journalist chooses to put his presumptions aside and take a long savor at the rescuer depicted in the Gospels? How does the delivery boy of the sore Testament measure up to the new, rediscovered Jesus or even the Jesus we suppose we know so well? In The Jesus I Never Knew, Yancey delved into the life of Jesus, as he elucidates, from below, to come to terms with as best I can what it must have been like to trace in person the extraordinary events unfolding in Galilee and Judea as Jesus journeyed and taught.In fact, he stumbled on himself further and further detached from the person of Jesus, diverted in its place by flannel-graph figures and scholarly assessment. He single-mindedly used his journalistic flair to approach Jesus, in the perspective of time, meet by the context of history. Yancey investigates three essential questions who Jesus was, why he came, and what he left behind.Step by step, scene by scene, Yancey explores the nicety into which Jesus was born and matured to adulthood his moral fiber and vocation his teachings and miracles and his legacy not just as the historical account explained it, just as he himself planned it to be. This book by Philip Yancey is faith-building look at Jesus lifehis family, his teachings, the miracles, and his death and resurrection. Phillip Yancey says, The Jesus I got to know in makeup this book is very different from the Jesus I learned almost in Sunday school. In a number of ways he is more reassuring in some ways more startling.Yancey puts previous a fresh and singular perspective on the life of Christ and who he was and why he came. Linking the gospel events to the human race and our conception that we live in today, The Jesus I Never Knew provides a moving and invigorating description of the preeminent figure of history. With an eagerness to undertake the mingled matters in the Gospels, Yancey comes across at the uncompromising words of this itineran t Judaic carpenter and inquires whether we are taking him earnestly enough in our throw day and age. According to Yancey, No one who meets Jesus ever rest the same.