10 Things Jesus Never Said

I'm giving this five stars because of its honesty, and message. The writing was pretty good and easy to read, but more than that, it gets five stars because I so appreciated the message it sent: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

I got “10 Things Jesus Never Said” as a free Kindle download, and started reading it last week. It had been a really rough week and I was feeling pretty depressed about life kind of being at a standstill. I wasn't expecting much from this book. But I felt so calm and at peace even after just the first chapter. I highlighted a ton of stuff.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

“...Jesus targeted the down-and-out, the spiritually bankrupt and the religiously lost. All those who didn't seem to make the cut or who couldn't meet the impossibly high standards set by the reliigous elite were the very ones Jesus invited to come to him.”

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

“When Jesus spoke this invitation, he didn't aim it just at the really good people or the really pretty people or the really churchy people. He aimed it at the spiritually broken.”

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

“You struggle with contentment. Jesus wants your burden. You often feel afraid. Jesus wants your burden. You're a worrier. Jesus wants your burden. You feel consumed by guilt. Jesus wants your burden. You don't think you can ever be good enough for God. Jesus wants your burden.”

Not to say I agreed with every single thing in this book. There are a lot of social issues described in this book that I'm still working out my feelings towards, as a Christian and a compassionate human being in the world. But I appreciated the overall message of acceptance, that nothing you do can separate you from God's love, and that we need to stop believing all the lies that tell us what we think we need to do and be in order to be “Good Christians” and just unburden ourselves.