What If Jesus Had Not Come Until Today? Who Would Follow Him? Who Would Kill Him?
A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail"Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today.
Starting with angels heralding a birth in the back of a motel laundry room, the skeptical Davis watches the gospel unfold in today's society as a Messiah in T-shirt and blue jeans heals, raises people from the dead, and speaks such startling truths that he captures the heart of a nation.
But the young man's actions and his criticism of the religious establishment earn him enemies as ruthless as they are powerful.
An intense and thought-provoking novel, Eli strips away religious tradition to present Jesus fresh and unvarnished. With gripping immediacy, Bill Myers weaves a story whose truth will refresh your faith.
Pages:
352 Format:
Trade Paper EAN/ISBN:
N/A Publisher:
Zondervan
If you read just one Myers book...| Posted February 26, 2008
...read this one!
Eli is a fun story and challenging experience all at the same time. Bill Myers uses familiar modern concepts to demonstrate just how radical Jesus' ministry was, and strip away the reader's comfortable and insulated view of Christ through a distant historical lens.
Who are the tax collectors? The fishermen? The shepherds? The Pharisees? As you read one man's take on these questions, you will find the questions becoming more deeply personal. Where do I fit in this story? Would I have rejected Jesus if I lived in His time, or He in mine? Am I willing to follow His radical call to complete devotion, and to love at all costs?
Eli is great fiction, but it's an even better spiritual journey. After you read it, you will go back to the Gospel with a fresh, bold perspective.
