Brian Zahnd / When Everything's On Fire

“I felt like the Jesus I knew deserved a better Christianity than the Christianity I knew.” In this podcast, Zahnd shares about the Christian faith in alignment with Jesus and the journey he’s taken in discovering this good news! De- and reconstruction, a non-violent, non-retributive God who is reconciling the world to Himself, hermeneutics, hell, and the wonder of church deep and wide, in this conversation, the guys discuss a much richer, wider faith. The guys dive into Brian’s book, "When Everything’s on Fire,” a conversation that invites us to move beyond the crisis of faith toward the journey of reconstruction. QUOTES “I was having a crisis of faith but not regarding Christ… I felt like the Jesus I knew deserved a better Christianity than the Christianity I knew.” “Christians should never say that Christianity is the absolute truth, they should say Jesus is the Truth.” “Jesus is the only perfect theology.” “The Bible by itself cannot sustain the pressure that is put upon it… Often, in any fundamentalist form of Protestantism, the bible become Christianity… the Bible by itself cannot sustain the pressure that is put upon it…” “What the Bible does perfectly, and inerrantly, is point us to Jesus.” “All scripture finds its fulfillment in Christ.” Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rethinking-god/support