We need the whole Jesus. The complete Jesus. Everything he said. Every detail of what he did.
When evangelism is retooled as recruitment, then marketing strategies for making Jesus attractive to a consumer spirituality begin to proliferate. Words or aspects of Jesus that carry unwelcome connotation are suppressed.
Every omitted detail of Jesus, so carefully conveyed to us by the Gospel writers, reduces Jesus.
We emasculate Jesus!!
Eugene H. Peterson in the foreword to JESUS MEAN AND WILD by Mark Galli, published by Baker Books
