I don’t normally include devotional books here, but I really enjoyed this, and wanted to share it! I was going to try to explain it, but the blurb from his website does it better than I ever could:
“Jesus was passionate about getting his message across.
So, he used storylines based on everyday life to create stories that true faith-seekers could understand and relate to.
But, if Jesus were to tell these stories to you and me today, here and now, surely he would root them in our 21st Century culture of entertainment, media, technology, commerce, sport, medicine, social protocols.
Of course he would; and he would use these as everyday analogies and storylines to communicate his eternal, spiritual themes.
He would keep the themes and messaging of his parable stories unchanged, but he would wire his words into today’s world.
And so, in this book, the ‘Good Samaritan’ becomes the ‘Compassionate Millwall Fan’; and the ‘Lost Sheep’ becomes the ‘Missing Pupil’.
In every case, I also include the original parable as Jesus told it: I freely acknowledge that he was a better storyteller than me!”
So, there you go, loved it, give it a go!
My only disappointment is that at the end he references a similar job he’s writing on Proverbs, “due out in 2022”, but I can’t find any evidence of its existence, maybe it’ll happen one day!
ineke.co.uk 