Jesus Wants to Save Christians [HC]

A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

There is a church in our area that recently added an addition to their building which cost more than $20 million.  Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.

This is a book about those two numbers.

Jesus Wants to save Christians is a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity.  It’s about empty empires and the truth that everybody’s a priest.  It’s about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.

It’s about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.