Jesus Unchained: How to Rise Above the Agendas, Find Peace, and Be Set Free

by Robert Glenn Johnson

Overview

Jesus Unchained is a book about Jesus in his culture and context. It challenges us to stop making an idol out of Jesus and gives us a fuller picture of who he really is. Jesus Unchained will point us back to the true Jesus and inspire a faith that transcends politics, religion, and even our deepest questions about God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953495327
Publisher:	Invite Press
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert Glenn Johnson is the pastor of St. Mark United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas. He previously served churches in Texas and Mississippi. He is a graduate of Perkins School of Theology. A respected preacher, he seeks to find new, relevant ways to communicate across racial, educational, cultural, and generational boundaries.

Table of Contents

Foreword - xi

Part I: Who's Chaining Whom

Chain of Fools - 1

A Love Story - 10

Chained Reactions - 19

The Touchstone - 28

Organic Jesus - 35

Divine - 54

Human - 76

Part II: Jesus: The Chain Breaker

Mission - 97

Message - 115

New Life! - 131

Jesus Crowned - 150

A Closing Prayer: Takes These Chains from My Heart - 157

Editorial Reviews

"Unique and provocative. It made me reconsider what I thought I knew." Ed O'Malley, author and CEO, Kansas Leadership Center

"A transformational offering." T. LaMont Holder, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Wichita, KS and President of the Kansas Missionary Baptist State Convention

"Johnson helps us break the chains of our false images of Jesus. I highly recommend this book!" Derek Vreeland, pastor, and author of By the Way: Getting Serious About Following Jesus

"A scripturally sound, trustworthy guide in following the One who breaks the chains with which we all have been shackled." C. Clifton Black, Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

"This book will truly help to break the chains of bad religion, faulty theology, inaccurate history, and cultural perceptions! Just read the book!" Dr. Terry L Weems, pastor of New Life Fellowship Church, Columbia/McComb/Silver Creek, MS

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