What Would Jesus Do?
A Handbook
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The Holy Bible is a wonderful book. It contains everything we should ever need to know about the mind of God and the faith journey. We should begin our journey in the Bible and we should end it there.
I will hope for but not expect to fully experience God in this life. I am peaceful in the assurance that I will do so in the next life. Until then, the best I can do is to reflect on my own contacts with God and seek to enter into the contacts of others by experiencing them second-hand.
Many people have difficulty relating to the Bible because the stories in it take place thousands of years ago. Although it is both interesting and comforting to recognize in biblical characters traits that we see every day, we may still feel a sense of distance because of the settings and the language.
Latter-day experiences may be more accessible to us because we have an easier time relating to conditions and outcomes. In other words, by reading about (for example) my experiences in the present time, you may find it easier to place yourself within the experience and use it to further develop your own relationship with God.
Begin with the Bible. End with the Bible. Remember that God is working in people’s lives today in real, though not provable, ways. We want to share with you. In any group, ask the question, “How has God touched your life?” You’ll be surprised at the response.
I have left space at the bottom of each page for your use. My thought was that I might wish to make notes to myself or document my feelings as I read. I have recently been introduced to the idea of a reading journal. This is simply a journal of one’s thoughts and reactions to whatever is being read.
In my own life, I recognize that I would hardly ever be prepared with what I needed to do this kind of journaling, even though I have found it to be a wonderful way to experience a book or story.
For all who might have the same difficulty, all you will need is a flat pen or pencil to use as a bookmark. With this handy, you have everything you need for journaling.
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You’re lost in the night, stumbling over everything, unable to find a path. At last you notice a light in the middle of all that darkness. Suddenly you aren’t alone any more. All you have to do is keep moving toward the light. I am the light of the world.
If you are searching, recognizing that there is something else, and whatever it is just won’t come into focus, then this book is written for you.
This searching is a solitary task, but others are available to provide guidance, and offer the stories of their own search. We all start the journey alone and we all must finish it alone, but we shouldn’t fail to accept the help that is offered along the way.
I am the light of the world. I am the way, the truth and the life. What can we learn from the one who said these words?
God has certainly been engaged with the world over the past two thousand years. People have realized relationships with God in spite of the pressures that the world brings to bear. God has remained faithful and in communion with the world, though many people assume that God stopped speaking to people thousands of years ago. It isn’t even reasonable to think that God talked with, guided and protected his people for millennia and then suddenly stopped when the Revelations of St. John were committed to paper.
Have you heard from God lately? How do you know? Join me for an exploration of faith and what it means to live in God’s kingdom. Learn how you can be the light of the world
M. Meier
Sometimes a book achieves respect and fame while being inaccessible to the average reader. The Bible may be such a book for many people. It was written by average people who had experienced something indescribable. Just as today those who experience God and feel compelled to communicate their experience to others, the authors of the Bible found that language failed them.
They resorted to poetry, metaphor and word pictures to try to communicate what they knew. Further, they were communicating with the people they knew and who were living essentially the same life they were. All of this makes it hard for today’s reader to feel what they felt, experience what they experienced.
This Handbook presents the essential message of the Bible in a framework that today’s reader can be comfortable in. The experience of God still requires metaphor and word pictures but these are couched in a modern framework. The Handbook will save you time as you walk toward your own re-union with God.
About the Author
Michael Meier is a fifty-something Minnesotan who grew up in