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  1. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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  2. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?
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  3. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.
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  4. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching?
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  5. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.
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  6. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
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  7. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.
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  8. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
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  9. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    {Jesus} invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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  10. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    When he lived on earth, {Jesus} surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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  11. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.
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  12. Philip Yancey _ The Jesus I Never Knew

    In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back."
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