Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough Audiobook (Free)
- Jefferson Bethke
- 4 h 12 min
- Thomas Nelson
- 2013-10-14
Summary:
A NEW YORK Moments BESTSELLER
Abandon dead, dried out, rule-keeping and embrace the promise to be truly known and deeply liked.
Jefferson Bethke burst in to the cultural conversation in 2012 with a separate, provocative poem titled “So why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.” The 4-minute video literally became an overnight feeling, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). The message blew up on social-media, triggering an avalanche of replies running the about Jesus > Religious beliefs: Why He Is So SUPERIOR TO Trying Harder, Carrying out More, and Getting Good Enough gamut from encouraged to enraged.
In Jesus > Religion, Bethke unpacks very similar contrasts that he drew in the poem-highlighting the difference between teeth gritting and grace, regulation and love, performance and serenity, despair and hope. With relaxing candor he delves in to the motivation behind his message, you start with the unvarnished story of his own plunge from the pinnacle of a works-based, fake-smile life that sapped his strength and led him down a route of harmful behavior.
Bethke is quick to acknowledge that he’s not really a pastor or theologian, but merely a regular, twenty-something who all cried out for a existence greater than the one for which he previously settled. Along his trip, Bethke discovered the true Jesus, who beckoned him beyond the props of fake religion.
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