If you are like millions of others who seek to understand Jesus and perhaps hope to someday be like him, chances are you don't experience the "peace that passes understanding" and "joy unspeakable" that his first disciples did. You may think of Jesus as different from yourself. In the view of Jesus' early followers, we have no hope of enjoying the fulfilling life Jesus lived as long as we regard him as essentially different from us. Your Forgotten Self invites you to experience yourself through new eyes. To be a believer is to see yourself mirrored in Jesus. To have faith is to understand yourself as Jesus understood himself. When this happens, the power of the Christ floods your everyday life. You begin to live as Jesus in the present moment.
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A fascination with Jesus as a giant in personal development arose in David Ord when he was still in elementary school in England. His pursuit of insight into the self-understanding of Jesus took him from his home in Yorkshire to New Zealand, then to the United States, where he studied at the Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley. A graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary with 20 years experience teaching about Jesus in traditional congregations, David Ord presents an understanding of Jesus that breaks with conventional images.
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The mirror,
This review is from: Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus The Christ (Paperback)
David Robert Ord's long-term fascination with Jesus has apparently led him right to his own mirror--the object of every true spirituality. His book, "Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus the Christ" is a lay book that covers profound subject matter in a "let's sit down and chat" manner. Every single question raised by searching Christians is covered in this book. Questions like: What is the nature of man? What was the purpose of Jesus' crucifixion? How does one access a living, vital God? And yet the answers are far from the traditional answers we've heard for centuries. No, these answers urge us to look in the mirror to find God. The answers inform us that we were born, literally in the likeness of the Divine, but that we have forgotten who we are. We are, the author tells us, God made flesh. But because we do not see ourselves this way, we create all manner of images of self in the mirrors of our lives. And because we do so, we have created a world filled with dark, dingy, unworthy self-images, reflected back to us in our relationships, our politics, our crime, our racism, etc. He tells us that all we need do is look within to find the true nature of our being. And he tells us how to do that in simple, direct language that brings the reader to his own mirror. Though this book is written about a character very present in Christianity, it is a must read for anyone who is searching for a real spirituality--not that one fed to us by churches, gurus and other external institutions, but one that creates for us "a heart flowing with rivers of living water." Read this book and open up to a whole new paradigm about life!
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To anyone who wishes to be like more Jesus,
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This review is from: Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus The Christ (Paperback)
Christians as a whole yearn to be more like Jesus. For the so called 'peace that passes understanding' and the 'joy unspeakable.' "Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus The Christ" holds that they have it wrong. The reason? They think of Jesus as different from themselves. Author and teacher of religion for over twenty years David Robert Ford (who has had a fascination about Jesus since elementary school) believes that to be a true believer you must see yourself mirrored in Jesus Christ - to have faith is to understand yourself much like Jesus did. "Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus The Christ" is enthusiastically recommended to Christian studies shelves and to anyone who wishes to be like more Jesus - and wants to realize that goal is closer than they could imagine.
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I love this book. It takes what I learned in the church of my childhood with what I've learned in my explorations as an adult. It just feels good to read.
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