Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World

If you are familiar with Pastor Andy Stanley and even if you are not, this is a great book to read. You will learn more about what our faith, in many cases has become, an anemic version of Christianity. Due to distortions of the gospel that undermines our credibility and our evangelistic effectiveness. I love watching Andy Stanley each week on TV. Although sometimes, I may miss something since he goes so fast. Reading his book Irresistible was very beneficial. I could go back and reread a portion that I wasn't quit sure I understood. Andy starts in the Old Testament, explaining the old covenant God gave Abraham, Moses and the Israelites. God's plan was to create in them a new nation, set apart and different from all others. But using one example, they wanted a king, everyone else had a king so they wanted one too. God was their king, He wanted them to look to him. God through the profit warned them, but He finally gave them what they wanted and most of the kings, were not good men. Another thing, God never asked them to build a Tabernacle , that was man's idea. When Jesus came, He didn't improve on the old covenant. Jesus was introducing something new. What he said was scandalous and blasphemous. On more than one occasion the religious leaders were so upset they wanted to stone Jesus. Quote from the introduction tells the story best, “Andy takes readers on a fascinating journey back in time to recover a faith so rich, so dynamic, so disruptive, that it could not be ignored, marginalized, or eradicated.” Andy clears up many things we may have wondered about. He educates us on things we may not have know. He helps us to see making our faith more interesting is not the answer to reaching others. Understanding and discovering or recovering a faith so rich and dynamic, it can not be ignored, it is Irresistible. I, like those of old want a faith worth living and dying for.