Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again.

Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again

Marcus Borg 's book on Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again is refreshing to one 's senses because it talks about compassion and love as demonstrated by Jesus . Borg conceives of a powerful claim about the historical Jesus , reinforcing the impact He has on man 's life . Borg also contrasts Jesus as being one full of compassion , and teaching the ways of being compassionate as against the Jesus that expounds on holiness and separation or the virtue of being holy and perfect . There are some

br themes that were not expounded on well but most of his elucidations are well done and deserves careful reading

Love and compassion are important traits if we want to set a relationship between efficiency and compassion in its rightful . We must go beyond laws and proclamations . If we desire a more loving society , individual persons must return to the deepest common sense of our hearts we must claim love as our true treasure . Then comes the difficult part : we must try to live according to our desire in the moment-by-moment experiences of our lives

There is nothing more beautiful and freeing than living with conscious dedication to love . The way love invites us to become vessels of love sharers in grace rather than controllers of achievement . It invites us toward increasing freedom from all our slaveries and addictions . It encourages us to ease our grasping and striving for false security . It asks for vulnerability rather than...