Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore
by Rick Mckinley
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Author: Rick MckinleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-20
ISBN: 1590523873
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Multnomah Books
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Book Review: Eloquent words for the disillusioned about christianity
Summary: 4 Stars
Rick does a nice job of tying in this theme of "the margins" throughout this book. I think there are ALOT of people in the church and out of the church who can relate to this, and here in Portland Rick is really what this town needs.
Most of this book is not new for a person who has been a Christ follower and has traversed some of this path. But there are still some gems of observation in there that are really valuable and a relief to hear them spoken out.
For example, he talks about people whose fathers were pretty emotionally or physically absent, and how this stands in the way of conceiving that there would be a God that would care on a personal level.
But he doesn't take the personal thing so far without acknowledging limitations to America's "individual centered" church...where each person in the family goes for their own ministry to "get what they need". Like the youth group that never joins "real church" where the grownups are.
I appreciated his gentle naming of the churches hypocrisies. People who read the bible daily and do all the right things to be a Christian, but somehow their heart still doesn't have it down. Or the people who proclaim Christ, but they "aren't going to stop sleeping with their girlfriend". And then wonder why we kinda get stuck in a place with no spiritual growth.
I appreciated his honesty about how it can be difficult to know what to do after becoming a Christian, and how we can pass through different phases of understanding our own faith.
It is a good book for the newer Christ follower, or a person on the fence about it. It shows a much easier to deal Christianity than the Swaggart and Robertson/700 Club variety, which effectively keeps away most post modern generation from seriously looking at Christianity.
Summary of Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore
Good News UnpackedJesus is our ultimate model for finding identity, acceptance, and legitimacy from the Father. As we pull back the curtain on His life, we discover that Jesus knows what it's like to be marginalized. He understands how it feels to have society shove you to the side, to not really be accepted, and in the end to be totally rejected. He can identify with life in the margins because when God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, He landed in the margins. On purpose. And He chose to land there because it's in the margins that broken lives get mended, prisoners are set free, and the poor hear the Good News.
Reimagine Your Life
Welcome to the crowded margins of life. It's a place where normal people don't feel normal. Where the daily grind drowns out the soft cry within that says, "I do not have it together." Where just beneath the surface we long for meaning and-dare we hope?-wholeness.
Rick McKinley writes from experience: Only God can rescue a person from the margins. Why? Because when He came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, in the margins is where he landed. On purpose. To find you.
Don't wait till you get yourself together. Meet Jesus in the margins just as you are, and reimagine your life through the lens of His transforming love.
Story Behind the Book
This book was birthed out of Rick's ministry at Imago Dei Community Church. Rick's heart is to communicate God's Word in an understandable way to those who are outside the reach of traditional churches. He often calls this "unpacking the gospel"-a gospel he sees as the predominant theme in all of Scripture. Rick says the kind of people he ministers to "are not afraid of the language of theology, but the theological ideas need to be brought down from the mountain."
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