Your Jesus Is Too American, Steve Bezner
Your Jesus Is Too American, Steve Bezner
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Your Jesus Is Too American
Calling the Church to Reclaim Kingdom Values over the American Dream

Author: Steve Bezner, Beth Moore

Narrator: James R. Cheatham

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2024


Synopsis

The American church faces a discipleship crisis. Instead of following the values of Jesus, many Christians are chasing after what our culture prizes: power, money, and political influence.

In Your Jesus Is Too American, Baptist pastor Steve Bezner invites Christians to rediscover what Jesus treasured and incorporate those kingdom values into the church's witness.

With a pastoral voice, Bezner shares the lessons he has been teaching in his church community for eleven years—humble service rather than worldly success, healing relationships across religious and ethnic divides, repairing harm against marginalized groups, giving generously, and providing a political witness rooted in the local church. Bezner shows that Jesus's vision of discipleship points the way toward a different way of being in the world.

The book offers a welcome perspective for church leaders and congregants alike who are frustrated with the way many churches pursue values that are not in line with Jesus's teachings and are worried about the American church's credibility crisis. It includes a foreword by Beth Moore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jillian on October 08, 2024

Despite its title, this is (mostly) not a book about Christian nationalism. Instead, it is a call for Christians to return to the values of God’s Kingdom that are at the heart of our faith. As someone who can get WAY too caught up in earthly distractions, I found this book to be a much-needed gentle......more

Goodreads review by Richard on August 08, 2024

You could easily be forgiven if, when opening the pages of Steve Bezner's "Your Jesus Is Too American: Calling the Church to Reclaim Kingdom Values Over the American Dream," you found yourself expecting yet another political diatribe or even an anti-Trump manifesto. I wasn't sure what to expect from......more

Goodreads review by Adrie on December 28, 2024

Great book! The title may be the harshest aspect of this book. I was looking forward to a bit of a self-righteous rant against Republicans, but that’s not what I got. Instead I got a great reminder of what it means to love Jesus and therefore engage with everyone around me in that love. Some highlig......more

Goodreads review by Traci on January 19, 2025

A call to action for Christians to focus solely on the cross of Christ again. A wonderful look at kingdom work through personal narrative and (largely) the Sermon on the Mount.......more

Goodreads review by Sheryl Dougherty on May 03, 2025

This book was not what I thought it would be. It took my emotional response to the title and left it at the feet of Jesus Filled with profound thoughts on the meaning of Kingdom living and presented subtle direction towards how many Christians in the West are not living to that expectation. Lots of r......more