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All right, guys, so this week we are using John Eldridge's book,

Beautiful Outlaw, to help us get to know the real Jesus better. So before preparing the episodes

for this week, I actually called John and I asked him, hey, what are five chapters? If you could

like truly encapsulate what, you know, you're trying to get across with this book. What would those

five chapters be? He told me chapters two, three, four, five, which we went over yesterday, and seven.

So that's where we're going to put our focus for this week. Yesterday we talked about chapter five

and how Jesus was truly a man and how we have to understand that. And he wasn't cheating the

process by only pretending to go through what other men have had to go through. But today we're going to be looking at a couple of chapters. Chapter two and

three. Chapter two is called the missing essential, his personality, and chapter three is called,

Is Jesus really playful? So let me read a few quotes from chapter two to get us going.

Reading the Gospels without the personality of Jesus is like watching television with the sound turned off

another quote here because when we lose his personality we lose Jesus and then another quote here

if you gathered the many books on Jesus and combed them for the words used most often to describe

him you can guess beforehand what would get loving and compassionate beautiful qualities and

certainly true of jesus but two-dimensional especially when we color these virtues with religious

tones love turns sickly sweet and compassion soft and limp how is it possible to genuinely

inconsistency consistently love anything so two-dimensional?

Loving and compassionate.

It's like trying to love and get well card.

And I remember reading this guys in chapter two and I was like, yeah, yeah, that actually

makes sense to me.

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