My Jesus [Hardcover]

--My-- Jesus is a collection of twenty-three sermons--that is to say, good news twenty-three times, twenty-three jets of freedom--preached in French Protestant parishes or on the radio. I say --my-- Jesus, not out of pride, but with humility. For I know well that this Jesus is not the Jesus of everyone, and moreover, that it is not a question of imposing it on anyone. This Jesus is not the Jesus of the historians or the scholars, neither the Jesus of the ecclesiastical hierarchies and other guardians of --theological correctness.-- He certainly is disputable and impertinent, but this Jesus is mine and I live from him. The sermons ask four questions that are unsettling for any preacher and congregation. How can the message of Jesus still address us today? What does Jesus teach us about God that is truly new? How should we receive the gospel of non-violence of the Sermon on the Mount? How can we remain a Church of Easter Day? It may appear that I am proposing answers to these four questions. In fact, my deepest desire is that the pertinence of their challenge not be forgotten; beyond that, it is up to each one to live with these difficult questions as he or she understands them. -Louis Simon --This is preaching at its most basic and most profound. Most basic because all of these sermons are rooted and find their life in biblical texts about Jesus from the Gospels. Most profound because Simon's sermons, like good parables, consistently upend our expectations and help us see Jesus--and our life in Jesus--in a whole new way. They are fresh, disarming, and deeply theological.-- -Leonora Tubbs Tisdale Clement-Muehl Professor of Homiletics Yale Divinity School --'Jesus' renown imprisons him, ' laments Louis Simon, the author of this startling collection of freshly translated sermons. After observing the difficulty of meeting Jesus 'face to face, ' Simon the preacher sighs, 'Alas.' As hard as it is to hear the Gospel afresh, it breaks free again and again in these pages. Laylcâ