While reading this book, you may have had some of these kinds of thoughts: "Why do you have to be so negative about the contemporary church? Jesus is not a critical person. It is so unlike our Lord to talk about what is wrong with the church. Let's focus on the positive and ignore the negative!"
Such views reveal an unfamiliarity with Christ the revolutionary, the opponent of the religious establishment.
He constantly defied the traditions of men with great deliberation in His will to bring forth a New Kingdom, a new birth, a new race, a new species, a new culture, a new civilization. (Ephesians 2:15)
Jesus established a pattern as He repeated and intentionally broke traditions while evoking anger in His enemies. He was not afraid to provoke those who suppressed the liberating gospel He brought to set men free.
It is critical to expose what is wrong with the contemporary church so that Christ's body can fulfill God's ultimate intention. A disciple of Jesus will have the same question asked about them that original disciples did: "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?" (Matthew 15:2)
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." -Matthew 10:34-38
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