Product Description

Who Is Jesus?

His name is recognized the world over. Christians claim to follow him. Muslims honor him as a prophet. And many Jewish rabbis regard him as a great teacher. Everyone knows about Jesus, but how many of us fully understand what he was like as a person?

Nowhere was the vitality of Jesus more visible than in his love, a love unlike any the world has ever seen. Compassionate, honest, powerful, humble, and sacrificial-Jesus was love personified, love walking among us. Such an example doesn't just happen. How did he do it? And how can we learn to love like him?

In Love Walked Among Us, Paul Miller invites us to get to know Jesus, to observe his life and his love as they unfold in the gospel narratives. The accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John-combined with Miller's own life stories-will encourage us to imitate Jesus' way of loving people. We will investigate such questions as:

- How do you love someone when you get no love in return, only withdrawal or ingratitude? - How do you love without being trapped or used by another person? - How do you love when you have your own problems? When do you take care of yourself? - When you are compassionate, people use you; but when you are honest, people get angry. So how do you love with both compassion and honesty?

In every way, Jesus' life exemplifies the full potential of what we were intended to be. And the better we know him, the more we will be drawn to follow his perfect example.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142688 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-06
• Released on: 2001-09-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"To see Jesus is to see what love...looks like. Paul Miller gives us a fresh look in this wonderful book." -- Joni Eareckson Tada

...it will move you and revive hope in your life. I couldn't put it down. -- Tremper Longman III, professor of biblical studies, Westmont College, coauthor of Cry of the Soul

Paul Miller captures the radiant beauty of Jesus Christ... a very edifying and informative book. -- Dr. Gregory A. Boyd, professor of theology, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, senior pastor, Woodland Hills Church, Maplewood, Minnesota

This book will 'wash out' your soul and once again draw you to the One who loves you... -- Steve Brown, professor preaching at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, an author of a number of books, and the bible teacher on the national program "Key Life"

From the Back Cover

About the Author
Paul Miller is director of seeJesus.net, which develops interactive Bible study guides that allow you to discover truths on your own within a small group. He is the author of an inductive study called The Person of Jesus, A Study of Love on which this book is based. Like the book, it is written to teach people about how Jesus loves. He also teaches seminars that train people to lead the study with friends and neighbors. Paul and his wife, Jill, have six children, two sons-in-law, four goats, three sheep, two dogs, and a stray cat that Jill has just started feeding. They live near Philadelphia.

Customer Reviews

Love Walked Among Us
As an acquiring editor I have the privilege of reading many book proposals and manuscripts, as well as published books. As I read through this one, I found myself stopping to pray, stopping to repent, and stopping to cry. I found myself so convicted by the example Christ gave us of the godly way to love!

Paul's journey to understand how Jesus loved others is well written with a vulnerability and transparency that lets you know it's okay to be on the path of learning to know and understand God. It's an eternal path, and one that doesn't come easily. We have to set aside all of our preconceived notions about others, "crucify" the very voices of our inner being that cry out to be right, to be loved the most, not to be inconvenienced or misunderstood, and instead to love as Jesus loved.

If you want a good read and some insight into Jesus, you will want to read this book!

A Must Read
This is an incredible book that not only reaches to the depths of the heart by capturing the amazing, incomprehensible love of Jesus, but at the same time convicts us of how short we fall in loving others. This is one of the most impactful books I've read about the reality of Jesus' love for us and how that can be applied as we desire to love others. Paul Miller's transparency and real life examples result in an ease of reading many books lack. This is a must read! Expect to be transformed!

The Heart of Compassion!
Wow! Throughout this entire book you'll find yourself walking in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel. Understanding what true compassion really is. Knowing what real Love is! All my life I felt I had an understanding of what it meant for Jesus to bear the cross for me. But, after reading "Love Walked Among Us" it has taken on a whole new meaning for me. Understanding that He was just a man, a physical human being I was able to put myself in His shoes. I could feel the mental pain of being betrayed, abandoned, alone. This alone would be enough to give up. But then, to have to endure such physical pain is unbearable! This book will help you see the outcast at work, feel compassion for him/her and reach out with the love of Jesus.