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| Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals | 
 enlarge | Authors: Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 9296
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0310278422
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.70973
EAN: 9780310278429
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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 Amen May 29, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I guess I'm a member of the choir. The book is a nice read but the authors are going to be attacked personally because the issues they raise cannot be attacked directly. As pointed out when discussing voting, sometimes there are no pat answers. But that's not bad.
 Jesus, Satan, President May 18, 2008
26 out of 41 found this review helpful
This book seems to be based on idealism - hence the title. It basically comes off as anti war anti establishment outside the kingdom of God. Fair enough - Christians need to hold their crosses higher than America, but lets not limit it to America. The IDEA of Jesus for president is nothing but an ideal. Let's face it - if Jesus were president He would have to come again, and when he comes again He will have fire in His eyes and blood on the hem of His robe. He is not coming again to run for election because he probably wouldn't get elected due to the fact that we reject truth and we would assassinate Him just like we did before.
So as president Jesus would not battle evil? Interesting yet simple question to a book running up the propaganda. I propose another book entitle SATAN FOR PRESIDENT - Would Satan go to war against evil regimes? He most certainly would NOT. He would try to appease the likes of: HITLER, POL POT, LENIN, MARX, HUSSEIN, ETC... you name it. He would let them infiltrate the thinking minds of the people, and let them fester and grow until the mind wears away.
This book fails on minor details in order to prop its anti American stance - saying AK-47's are US made - WRONG (RUSSIAN) Saying the US has the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons - WRONG (RUSSIA). There are other simply falacies in this book that really weaken its credibility, but my fingers are getting tired of typing so I won't name them all - Use your head and figure them out for yourself as you read.
This book is good on a PERSONAL level of turning the other cheek in our everyday lives. Going after the bully with love instead of fists. It really convicted me on my anger when I am wronged and seeking revenge on those who wronged me. I guess it lies in the hands of our Lord and Savior - If you are convicted that all war is wrong that is ok by me. However be careful of trying to make your convictions someone elses convictions.
Our goal as Christians is brotherly love and peace. We should be against war that is not justified. Paul says to be at peace with all men, IF POSSIBLE. Mark 13:7-8 is another verse where Jesus says we will hear of wars and rumors of wars and to not be alarmed that this must take place...
Powerful book May 12, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Let me just say that the book is a powerhouse. The book covers a lot of ground in relatively little text (it seems long but the font is huge and there are illustrations all over the place). Someone made the decision that the book should be wildly decorative, which I actually thought worked well with the content, because it's definitely not meant to be chewed over academically - rather the book itself is a challenge to transform/re-form/envision and act and live in faith, hope, and love. Shane and Chris write in a disarmingly simple and direct fashion, sharing with joy and patience a vision and stories of what the Christian faith could look like in modern times (in this case, we're talking America, militarism, and global capitalism). Many wonder why we, as a body, often look so much like the world around us. The authors challenge us to take up our crosses and follow a King who served with a towel and announced a Kingdom that was not of this world. The power of relentless imagination, transformed thinking, and the living experience of struggling to follow Jesus jump out from the pages.
As I mentioned, Shane and Chris go into a lot of different things - providing snapshots of what transformed life can be. They cover topics ranging from incarnational community to reimagined economics, and amazingly they had a lot meaningful things to say. Contents range from arrest experiences of various Christian peacemakers (like a seventy-something year old nun), to excerpts from early-church writers. I'd say the book is a quick read (really a page-turner, like Irresistible Revolution) but it's also loaded with life-changing possibility. Certainly I'd say it's not easy to read J4P and remain complacent. Perhaps one of the most important ways the book spoke to me was as a reminder that while following Jesus might call for sacrifice, we know that we don't sacrifice for asceticism's sake, but because we seek another Kingdom (and quite a beautiful one at that). There is grace and joy in the journey =).
Anyhow I don't review stuff on amazon much but I thought this one deserved a review.
God is a Theocrat May 5, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This year (2008) is an election year. And, this means that every politician and political party will play the "Christian" card sooner or later. But, God does not align himself to any political party. The early church did not either. "Jesus is Lord" is a statement that asserts that Caesar is not. It proclaims that modernism, post-modernism, democracy, the president, and America is not Lord. Therefore, we should be shaped by our true Lord rather than the false ones.
Jesus for President May 3, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book pealed off a thick layer of...whatever that I've been looking at Jesus through for most of my life. So many misguided ideas my friends and I in the church have had about what it means to follow Christ were exposed. Violence, self-reliance, individualism, financial security, patriotism - what did Jesus really say about them? Be prepared to ask yourself how so many of us could have been so wrong for so long. Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." His kingdom is so different, so completely revolutionary to the way of this world's governments and corporate empires. He did not come to improve our jacked up societies; he came to "make all things new!" So it only makes sense that we would have to become like little children - relearn life - not only to "enter" but even to "see" that kingdom. In fact, his way seems impossible & absurd until we've stripped off what we think we already know (then we wonder how we could have ever been so insane - to think that the way of empire could ever really be the answer). Jesus said, "You don't pour new wine into old wineskins...You pour new wine into new wineskins." Thank you Shane, Chris, Holly, & Ryan for the new wineskins! "Know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."
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