Living What Jesus Taught The Practice of the Kingdom of God
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.10.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
180
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1 cm
Gewicht
250 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798161895764
What difference should the teachings of Jesus make to an ordinary life?
It is one thing to find Christian belief reasonable, and another to understand what Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God. But a further question remains: what happens next? How do those beliefs affect the way we speak to others, use our time, handle resentment, exercise authority, spend money, or respond to someone in need?
Living What Jesus Taught: The Practice of the Kingdom of God turns from theological understanding to the practical business of living. It asks what it might mean to take the words and actions of Jesus seriously not only in church or in moments of prayer, but in families, friendships, workplaces and the small decisions that give a life its character.
This is a book about Christian spirituality without elaborate programmes or promises of instant transformation. It begins with the Gospels, inviting readers to return to the source, read Jesus in his historical setting, and resist the temptation to find only a reflection of their existing convictions. It considers why faith must be practised, how regular habits form character, and why grace and the work of the Holy Spirit cannot be reduced to personal achievement. It also recognises that faith, while deeply personal, is never simply private: community matters.
From there the inquiry moves to the inner life. Attention, stillness, prayer, reflection, gratitude and simplicity are considered not as techniques for becoming more impressive, but as ways of learning to see reality, ourselves and others more truthfully. How can silence help us listen? What does prayer mean when no answer is apparent? How might conscience be formed without being confused with the preferences we already hold? What does it mean to have enough in a culture that continually encourages us to want more?
The book then turns outward, where the teaching of Jesus makes its most testing demands. Mercy is more than a feeling, and compassion is not the same as agreeing with everyone. Listening requires us to take other people seriously. Truth should be spoken without contempt. Forgiveness does not erase responsibility, and reconciliation cannot always be achieved by one person alone. The command to love our neighbour becomes particularly difficult when that neighbour is a stranger, an opponent or someone whose needs inconvenience us. Service extends the question beyond private goodness to responsibility within society.
Christian living also has to endure suffering, uncertainty and failure. The book does not suggest that prayer removes grief or that religious commitment supplies easy answers to the silence of God. It considers how hope may survive disappointment and how a person can begin again after falling short. Finally, it proposes a modest and adaptable rule of life: a pattern of reading, prayer, rest, relationships and service that can be sustained alongside real obligations, rather than another system for measuring personal success.
Alan Bennett writes for committed Christians, people whose faith includes doubt, and readers drawn to the moral and spiritual wisdom of Jesus. Drawing on Scripture, Christian thought and the demands of ordinary experience, he offers a serious but accessible account of discipleship. Its central conviction is that the Kingdom of God is God's initiative, not a reward for personal achievement. Yet something of its character can become visible when mercy interrupts retaliation, generosity displaces self-interest, and love moves from an ideal into an act.
Living what Jesus taught is not a finished achievement. It is a direction repeatedly chosen in the life we already have.
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