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BOOK REVIEW: How Jesus Treated People by Morris L. Venden ISBN: 0-8163-0621-4
Morris L. Venden's interpretation of How Jesus Treated People was an interesting read. Christians and non-believers will gain insight and read examples on Jesus' behavior Christians are to mimic. For Christians, How Jesus Treated People can be looked upon as a companion to the Bible as its modern day translation can be understood by any Christian no matter the Christian’s I.Q. For non-believers, How Jesus Treated People will assist you in deciding whether or not it's worth your time to debate religion with a Christian.
How Jesus Treated People will be a rude awakening for a lot of Christians because the information contained therein is not the lesson they’ve been taught or is forcing on others.
A few passages taken from the book on How Jesus Treated People.
1. A marketplace is the wrong place for a church, for a Church is always to be a gift shop. Jesus wants His church to be a gift shop—not the kind of place where you buy gifts, but where you receive gifts. P. 8
2. They had been sold a bill of goods. They were people who had gotten the idea that you can work your way to heaven. P. 9
3. The currency of heaven is selling all that we are or think we are—all that we have or think we have. It is realizing our own nothingness and being willing to get rid of our self-dependence. P. 11
4. Trust involves depending upon another instead of yourself. P. 11
5. Because of sin, humanity had ceased to be a temple for God. p. 11
6. In cleansing the temple from the world’s buyers and sellers, Jesus announced His mission to cleanse the heart from the defilement of sin, from the earthy desires, the selfish lusts, the evil habits that corrupt the soul. P. 12
7. He didn’t insist that Simon first accept Him as Savior. P. 18
8. Fear gets bad marks in Scripture, because God has something better than fear of His people. P. 21
9. Why are ye se fearful? How is it that ye have no faith. P. 23
10. People who have faith don’t look at God as a last resort. P. 24
How Jesus Treated People has been on my shelf collecting dust since the late 1980s. Each time I picked it up to read I felt dread because many books on religion is usually about recruiting and converting. You can imagine my surprise when I saw How Jesus Treated People would provide me with the ammunition I need to fight hell and damnation with fire and brimstone.
