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Imagining Redemption

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Imagining Redemption offers a hands on understanding of Christ's work of atonement for humanity. Kelsey examines a specific tragic scenario and asks the question. What is the relevance of Christ's sacrifice for the individual's life in the face of adversity? Kelsey's willingness to tackle the question head on, in practical terms is refreshing and helpful! He examines the hard questions and offers some helpful suggestions. In this text he is able to address a very complex doctrine in terms that are accessible to the layman! It is a worthwhile read!

Christianity today, in North America specifically, has a unique language that it uses, a language that is foreign to a new visitor on a Sunday morning and familiar to a regular church member. Words like sanctification, salvation, the Eucharist, repentance, incarnation, sinner, apologetics, exegesis, canon, and redemption are regularly used in churches all over on Sunday mornings and in varying other meetings during the week. It is interesting to note that the first time church visitor and the long time church member have something uniquely in common. They are both unable to define many words within the church language and vocabulary. It was this discovery that motivated David Kelsey to write his book Imagining Redemption, in which he imagines redemption through a narrative account of a boy named Sam, his disease, and it's tragic effect on him and his family. Through the entire text, Kelsey weaves his thoughts and explanations of what redemption is Christianly speaking as well as addressing the question, "What earthly difference can Jesus make here?" in light of redemption. I would recommend this book to any person, young or old. Your heart will break, along with Kelsey, and you will be challenged yourself to answer the question in the tragedies around you, "What earthly difference can Jesus make here?"

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Redemption for our sins (however small or large they may be) is necessary for the Christian soul. The apostle Paul wrote most of the New Testament and dwells quite a bit on redemption. We had a Methodist minister, Paul Allen, who based 99% of his sermons on Paul's teachings. We all know that Paul had been Saul of Tarsas before his conversion at the feet of Jesus.

Imagining redemption is a must as one contemplates the hate he has toward a tormentor. Does God redeem the truly evil people of this world? Christ did Nickodemous and Zacheus who had climbed up into the fig tree (they don't really grow that tall, but Zach was a very small man and a mean, nasty tax collector -- hated by many) to look on the face of the man who had been sent to this earth to redeem the Jews such as he. Why, Zach almost became the thirteenth apostle. Had he been sitting in Mary M.'s place at the last supper, we never would have had the Da Vinci Code controversy. It was plain heresy. But, until that movie, I did not recognize Mary as the men back then wore long hair and robes such as a woman would do.

Imagining redemption should be a prerequisite for all preachers of whatever faith and ministers of the higher denominations. The Old Testament showed a judgemental God who had no redemption qualities. How, then, can Christ be the son of such a God. Something to think about.