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What Jesus Would Say

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Lee Strobel (also the author of my all-time favorite book, "The Case for Christ," also available at Amazon.com) has written a thoroughly engaging book in which he speculates what Jesus might say to some of the most controversial pop icons of our day -- ranging from Madonna to Bart Simpson to Rush Limbaugh. It's important to point out that the author isn't putting himself in the place of Jesus, but instead going to the Bible for insights into what Jesus might say to these folks. The result is a fast-paced, entertaining, and thought-provoking book that explores many important topics, ranging from success to leadership to servanthood. Like Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, this book is surprising in its unexpected approach. In reading this book, I got a practical course in doing what the Bible says we all should do -- "speak the truth in love." Some reactionaries might not like the idea that Jesus might actually offer forgiveness to the likes of Madonna, but if the Bible tells us anything, it tells us that nobody is beyond hope if they come to God in repentance and faith. Please, read this book; you'll find it refreshing and captivating! I wish Strobel were pastoring my church!

This book is very insightful as the author gives good advice for each celebrity as Jesus might. When we give advice to people we should always try to deal with them as Jesus would and this book helps point the way.

"What Jesus Would Say" is a fairly short book with life-changing lessons. By imagining what Jesus would say to prominent celebrities, Lee Strobel makes Jesus' teachings more accessible. I found the book fairly fun to read and it is full of great insights. Lee Strobel gives a short biography on each celebrity and then discusses their lives in more detail. What is it that Madonna is actually looking for in life? Why is it more difficult for rich men like Donald Trump to get into heaven? The "Top Ten Things" Jesus might say to David Letterman is supposed to be funny not irreverent. For the most part, the things Jesus says fits with his teachings while he was here on earth. I can only recommend this to you if you like imagining what Jesus might say and are not offended by this idea. I've also enjoyed reading The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus and The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God.

~The Rebecca Review

Instead of being fearful of worldly infection and isolating himself from popular culture, Strobel takes a creative look at high profile figures from a godly prospective. The result is a read that is both an insightful and fun bible study and gives a practical approach to how we view non-believers that every Christian should know.

it seems like this gentleman is trying to include 2 subjects in his book that is guaranteed to sell: Jesus and celebrities (Madonna being one). This is simply a man's opinion on what he thinks of a few celebs, thrown in with what he "thinks" Jesus would say to them. It's a shame. I do have to admit he is a savvy business man to come up with this concept, b/c he knew lots of people (including myself) would fall prey to it. But it's a good thing Amazon enables you to review and tell others about a product/book. don't buy it, the title is misleading.

This book is a embarrassing sign of our celebrity-worshipping times. As a Christian, Stroebel believes that Christ is God Incarnate - and yet he presumes to put words in His mouth! As for the quality of the words, Stroebel makes Our Lord's speech as bland as a Hallmark card. He has Christ quote Paul's letters, as if Paul inspired Jesus, and not vice-versa. May I recommend another book? If you want to know what Jesus would say, there is an excellent account of him in a book called the Gospel of Mark, which can be found in an anthology called the Bible, available here at Amazon. Read the Gospel of Mark, and then read it again. Lather, rinse and repeat daily for the rest of your life.

What would Jesus say? The true Jesus speaks:

"Think not that I [Jesus] have come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:34)

"But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." (Luke 19:27)

If you believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father and killed himself to save us from himself can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convince by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree you might want to see a doctor.

We do not know how Jesus would react if He were with us today. The book exploits its subject by trying to make people interested in it but it really does not go into much depth.