The Mud and the Masterpiece: Seeing Yourself and Others through the Eyes of Jesus

by John Burke, John Burke (Narrated by)

Overview

The reason "sinners" ran from the religious, yet ran to Jesus had everything to do with his heart's attitude toward people. They could sense Jesus was for them—not against them. Unlike the Pharisees, who could only see the mud of sin, Jesus saw a masterpiece under the mud that was so valuable, he was willing to give his life to restore messy people to the original work of art he created them to be.

Combining an engaging study of Jesus's encounters with imperfect people with inspiring stories of ordinary Christians having Christlike impact, this insightful book encourages readers to see the masterpiece beneath the mud in everyone. It shows how to align our hearts with the heart of God and our actions with the interactions of Jesus in order to show God's love to a hurting, broken world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610458184
Publisher:	christianaudio.com
Publication date:	12/01/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

John Burke is the author of No Perfect People Allowed and Soul Revolution, and the founder with his wife, Kathy, of Gateway Church in Austin, Texas. Since 1998, Gateway has grown to over 4,500 members, made up mostly of unchurched people who began actively following Christ at Gateway. John is also the President of Emerging Leadership Initiative (ELI), a non-profit organization, working to help church planting pastors and ordinary Christians "raise the church out of the culture." John has spoken in fifteen countries to over 200,000 church leaders and Christians about reaching a postmodern, post-Christian culture. He and Kathy have been married twenty-one years and currently reside in Austin, Texas, with their two teenagers, Ashley and Justin.

Editorial Reviews

Gateway Church pastor Burke (No Perfect People Allowed) uses scriptural stories and anecdotes to educate Christians on how to develop a less judgmental, more Jesus-like approach to welcoming people who have been wounded by churches into a more loving fold. The two-part book is most engaging in the first half, "Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus," in which Burke writes about developing an outlook on the world like Jesus in order to view the "masterpiece" - a person's highest potential -- even while most people are buried in their sin, or mud. The second half, "On Mission with Jesus," is less focused on anecdotes and centered on how Christians can go about converting others through their personal example, leadership, and service. Though the book focuses on allowing people to come as they are to Jesus, a number of passages make clear that same-sex attraction is viewed as a sexual sin to be healed, underscoring its status as an evangelical book with a mission to teach others how to be evangelists.
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