book review: Not My Jesus

Author: Fabey, Bob,

Title:  Not My Jesus: Embracing our Sacred Role in a Changing World
Date: 2019

Bob Fabey opens his book "Not My Jesus" with a description of the prayer from "Talladega Nights." 

Fabey is getting behind the question of why we seek to make Jesus into our own image, instead of the other way around. He peels back the layers of the white, American, consumeristic, Jesus by taking us to the Scriptures to show us what Jesus was truly like. Which allows us to answer the question that Jesus is asking, “Who do you say that I am?”  

I am sure a lot of people will be turned off by the cover. North American evangelicalism just can't handle a cigarette smoking, hipster Jesus. But the cover is what the book addresses. Our remaking of Jesus. Bob Fabey does a beautiful job of addressing our theological and cultural misreading of Jesus. his conversational tone, humour and the gentle invitation to re-examine our views of Jesus is both helpful and encouraging.

Farley, then says that once we truly understand who Jesus was and is, then we can begin to live a life, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that reflects this Jesus, and not the Jesus of our own making.  

“Not My Jesus” is well written. Fabey is helping in confronting how we have all made Jesus into our own image, and seek, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to flip it around so that we could be made more and more into his image and likeness.  

I was provided this book by the Speakeasy Book program free of charge for an honest review.