Christmas, for many people, will be one of the few times they visit a church or come any where near anyone vaguely Christian. Christmas is their annual encounter with Jesus! What will they expect of us as a Church, what will they expect of us as Christians and perhaps more importantly, what will they take away from the meetings with us? Will we impact their lives as they hear the message of Jesus' birth and the good news of the gospel?
In Encounters with Jesus, Tim Keller features ten conversations from John's Gospel that show how Jesus changed the lives of every person he met. Those conversations confronted common doubts and questions like who am I? why am I here? what do I believe? and what is my purpose in life? Keller believes the biblical answers from those "powerful" encounters with Christ long ago contain invaluable lessons for us today.
Each of the ten chapters includes the meeting, dialogue and transformative change that occurred, whether in a skeptical student, a religious insider or an outcast. His encounter with Satan, the great enemy in chapter six, reaffirms our need to rely “not only on the Word of the Lord, but also on the Lord of the Word.”
Because Jesus Christ is more than an example, more than a teacher, more than a model, HE came as “Savior—to be the answer—to do for us what we could not hope to do on our own.” Keller believes a personal encounter with Jesus is the only answer to all of life’s questions.
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Dean is the Sales Manager at The Good Book Company. He engages with churches, organisations and individuals to provide them with useful resources for their varying ministries. Dean attends St John's Church in Woking, where he lives with his family.
