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Just like McKnight's more recent book, "The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited" (2011), "The Jesus Creed" is a really remarkable recap of what biblical Christianity is at its core, viz., Loving God AND Loving Others, as its subtitle says. Furthermore, it fosters a practical understanding, appreciation of and application to one's personal growth in grace and love toward God and Neighbor---true "sanctification" in theological terms. Wonderful for daily living "Coram Deo" and for raising up children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. This dumb old MDiv guy for all his years of formal theological study (both Catholic & Protestant) wholeheartedly recommends these beautiful books for your spiritual satisfaction and encouragement in these evil days.


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The Jesus Creed Loving God Loving Others Scot McKnight 9780567040336 Books Reviews

In The Jesus Creed Loving God, Loving Others, Scot McKnight introduces us to a new way of approaching life organized around what he believes was the central truth in the life of Jesus "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

As a good Jew in the first century, Jesus would have been expected to make the Shema (Hear, O Israel)...his primary confession of faith, and he did. To this Jesus added the confession that we should love our neighbor. These central truths dictated Jesus' teaching and his living and even his prayer. Because they were central to Jesus, they should guide our lives as well.

From that truth, McKnight goes on to show how this thinking is seen throughout the New Testament and works its way into the relationship that Christians are called to have with Jesus and with others. Our love for God and our love for others is what life is all about. McKnight organizes his thinking around central biblical stories and sprinkles in many helpful stories from the lives of Christians. The book is also strengthened by many quotations from spiritual giants from the early church through the present. This is an excellent work on what it means to live the Christian life.
The Jesus Creed - Loving God, Loving Others by Scot McKnight

Summary by G. Stephen Goode

From the Preface --

"A Jewish expert on the law once asked Jesus what was the most important thing for spiritual formation. Jesus' answer turned history upside down for those who followed him. This book is an invitation for you to explore Jesus' answer to that man. I call it the Jesus Creed, and what he said should shape everything we say about Christian spirituality. Everything."

Jesus knows what life is all about. He was born into a Jewish family and culture but he was more than Jewish. He took the Shema which was central to Judaism but he added to it to make it the Jesus Creed. It is simple, yet it will cost us our lives, living it out. Love God. Love others. It is central to who Jesus was and is the core of who we should/can become. Jesus gave us the Creed and a model to follow.

Dr. McKnight is a Old Testament scholar but he does not write like one. I have to admit that I sought out this book because of the loving others part. I think we in the church should be doing that better and more often in order to demonstrate the love of God to the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, animist, to the poor and other unreached worlds. It also has to be integrated. Loving God and Loving others is like a coin. You cannot have one side without the other and yet it seems like we continue to get pulled from one side or another. Either just loving God or loving one's neighbor. We cannot do one without the other. God help us to be more like Jesus.

This book helped me a great deal as I started reading it during our response to the Asian tsunami. Loving God and our neighbor has been there from the beginning. Listening to those who suffer, entering into their grief and bearing their burdens helps us to fulfill the love of Christ. Compassion in the Jesus Creed is on every page of this book just like it is in the four Gospels. I think we forget that sometimes but Jesus did not. That is why He made it the center.

From page 117

"Jesus doesn't act in compassion in order to dazzle people into adoring him. He acts out of love and to transform the life of the grieving person. The widow gets her son back and has an income again. The prostitute's life is transformed from impurity to purity. Each woman of Luke 8 - Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna and others - has a special story to tell about what Jesus has done one tells a story of spiritual cleansing, another of physical healing, and others(if I may guess) of learning that Roman money is to be distributed to the needy, including Jesus. Wealthy women at the time of Jesus-- and these women were evidently wealthy -- did not pay taxes. Instead, if they had good hearts, they distributed their funds to charities. The chosen charity of these women was Jesus, whom they support and follow his entire life. It is these same women who become witnesses of Jesus' death and resurrection......"

So may we continue to love God and others and fulfill the same creed that Jesus did.
Just like McKnight's more recent book, "The King Jesus Gospel The Original Good News Revisited" (2011), "The Jesus Creed" is a really remarkable recap of what biblical Christianity is at its core, viz., Loving God AND Loving Others, as its subtitle says. Furthermore, it fosters a practical understanding, appreciation of and application to one's personal growth in grace and love toward God and Neighbor---true "sanctification" in theological terms. Wonderful for daily living "Coram Deo" and for raising up children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. This dumb old MDiv guy for all his years of formal theological study (both Catholic & Protestant) wholeheartedly recommends these beautiful books for your spiritual satisfaction and encouragement in these evil days.