The Year of Living like Jesus My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do (Audible Audio Edition) Edward G Dobson Tom Schiff Ed Dobson Zondervan Books
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Evangelical pastor Ed Dobson chronicles his year of living like Jesus and obeying his teachings. Dobson's transition from someone who follows Jesus to someone who lives like Jesus takes him into bars, inspires him to pick up hitchhikers, and deepens his understanding of suffering. As Dobson discovers, living like Jesus is quite different from what we imagine.
The Year of Living like Jesus My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do (Audible Audio Edition) Edward G Dobson Tom Schiff Ed Dobson Zondervan Books
Ed Dobson is a neat guy. He cares more about living the way Jesus wants us to live than he does about anything else, and this is what makes him a neat guy. He is touched by A.J Jacobs' attempt to spend an entire year literally living out what the Bible says. But A.J focused mainly on the Hebrew Bible. Ed wants to focus on the gospels.So he decides to read the gospels through (or listen to them on his ipod) once a week. He finds this incredibly hard to do, even with the time he has. He tries to treat people the way Jesus treated them, so he spends time in bars hanging out with non-Christians and trying to be a witness to the, because that's what Jesus would do. He drives the speed limit everywhere he goes because that's what Jesus would do. He eats kosher and grows out his beard and attends synagogue because that's what Jesus would do.
He also prays the rosary and does the Orthodox Christian prayer rope, and repeats ad infinitum "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me."
But would Jesus be praying the rosary and the prayer rope, which were inaugurated hundreds of years later? Wouldn't Jesus pray the Shema and the Via Hafta and the Barchu and Kaddish and other Hebrew prayers? For the high holy days, Dobson did this, but he could have prayed the English versions of these prayers throughout the year.
I think at the end of the year, Dobson realizes that living like Jesus has more to do with the way we treat each other than it does with recreating a first century ambiance. That's what I learned.
I also learned about Dobson's courageous decision to vote for Senator Obama because he was the candidate who seemed closer to Jesus' teachings about helping the poor and the down and out. He took a lot of heat for that vote. But he stuck to his convictions, which I admired.
Dobson is also battling Lou Gehrig's disease, and he may not have much time left on the earth. He will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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The Year of Living like Jesus My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do (Audible Audio Edition) Edward G Dobson Tom Schiff Ed Dobson Zondervan Books Reviews
The story Dobson tells is a year of greater concern about the trappings of being Jewish and less concern about living like Jesus in spirit. Descriptions of his participation in Jewish holidays and festivals are sometimes moving but overall there is little that would inspire one to consider living like Jesus. The most consuming discussion of how he believed Jesus would have treated others, thought about happenings in the world are the pages he spends telling us why his pick for president best represents Jesus.
I love this book. My kids are tired of me quoting this book, but I love it still. I have read a lot of Bible study type books about what Jesus really said or meant, but this blows them all away. I love the way he explains Jewish ceremonies and holidays. I love his questions about the failures or confusion we have in trying to follow Christ's teachings. I would recommend this to anyone who can read.
Like many others who read this book, it caught my attention after having read The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. I really enjoyed that book but agree with the criticism it sometimes received that the author seemed to be going for particularly humorous or ridiculous laws to follow just for entertainment's sake. Similarly in The Year of Living like Jesus, it seems like the author deliberately sought out the most difficult and time-consuming things to do which Jesus probably didn't even do during his human lifetime. Using prayer beads and rosaries to pray from Scripture for hours a day is great, but Jesus didn't use rosaries or the Gospels to pray because they didn't exist then.
Most of the things Dobson did to "live like Jesus" such as wearing tassels, eating kosher, etc. seemed to overlap a lot with Jacobs' book so even if his goal was to live like a typical Jew in Jesus' time, it wasn't all that interesting or fresh for me. He devoted a lot of space in his book to talking about his personal problems like his son's documentary or choosing a presidential candidate, which makes sense since it was chronicling his year, but after a while a lot of it seemed to read like whining. Personally I think the whole part about voting for Obama should have been omitted completely because it just wasn't that interesting and it felt like he was just wanting to whine about people criticizing him for that decision.
It was kind of interesting to read as he contemplated his ALS in the context of his mission. But other than that the most interesting aspect to me was how he was a native of Ireland but still knew so little about Catholicism. I'm Catholic myself so I laughed when he reproduced the Hail Mary as if it were some weird cult chant he'd just heard that intrigued him and I was shocked that this was really the first time he'd heard of Hail Marys or rosaries or anything. Reading as he discovered all of this for the first time ended up being, to me, the most interesting part of the book. However it's a very minor theme throughout the book.
Overall there was nothing very satisfying about finishing the book. I felt like all I'd learned was that if you try to do the daily prayers of three different religions for a whole year, it takes up a lot of time. The whole thing was a little bit aimless and I think he needed to more closely specify his goal before launching into the project.
Ed Dobson is a neat guy. He cares more about living the way Jesus wants us to live than he does about anything else, and this is what makes him a neat guy. He is touched by A.J Jacobs' attempt to spend an entire year literally living out what the Bible says. But A.J focused mainly on the Hebrew Bible. Ed wants to focus on the gospels.
So he decides to read the gospels through (or listen to them on his ipod) once a week. He finds this incredibly hard to do, even with the time he has. He tries to treat people the way Jesus treated them, so he spends time in bars hanging out with non-Christians and trying to be a witness to the, because that's what Jesus would do. He drives the speed limit everywhere he goes because that's what Jesus would do. He eats kosher and grows out his beard and attends synagogue because that's what Jesus would do.
He also prays the rosary and does the Orthodox Christian prayer rope, and repeats ad infinitum "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me."
But would Jesus be praying the rosary and the prayer rope, which were inaugurated hundreds of years later? Wouldn't Jesus pray the Shema and the Via Hafta and the Barchu and Kaddish and other Hebrew prayers? For the high holy days, Dobson did this, but he could have prayed the English versions of these prayers throughout the year.
I think at the end of the year, Dobson realizes that living like Jesus has more to do with the way we treat each other than it does with recreating a first century ambiance. That's what I learned.
I also learned about Dobson's courageous decision to vote for Senator Obama because he was the candidate who seemed closer to Jesus' teachings about helping the poor and the down and out. He took a lot of heat for that vote. But he stuck to his convictions, which I admired.
Dobson is also battling Lou Gehrig's disease, and he may not have much time left on the earth. He will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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