Adrian McCartney

Red Letter Christianity

02 Jan
2013
17:21pm

It wasn’t written to entertain the mind…

Red Letter Christianity

 The idea behind the book is that we need to have a fresh look at the words of Jesus – in some Bibles they are printed in red.

This is exactly what you would expect from Claiborne and Campolo.  I found it very helpful although it probably only skims over most of the subjects.  Here are some tasters…

Community (Acts 2 church) – “it wasn’t that they had community because they shared, they shared because they had community.”

Church – a comment on St Francis – “his best sermon was his life”.

Hell – “St Paul was complaining to St Peter that he kept