I have been reading a recently published book “Jesus Manifesto—Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ” by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. I highly recommend it to you.
The authors’ objective is to counter a spirit of narcissism that has crept into the church, where ‘conversion’ is less a turning to Jesus than a turning to success and self-discovery. Of the top 100 best selling Christian books on the market in 2009, they point out, just 4 were about Jesus.
They ask “what is it that will change the course of Christianity, putting it back on course? What will emancipate God’s people from all the things that Jesus nailed to His cross? What will create a spiritual revolution in the world today?" The answer: a total occupation with Jesus.
Many Christians are not occupied with spiritual things at all. And others are errantly occupied with good things like evangelism, or worship and praise, missions, or end times, or church growth or city-wide prayer. All good things, but may keep us otherwise occupied. Jesus must be our 'only' occupation. We must pray for an inward revelation of Christ to our hearts by the Holy Spirit—a progressive unveiling of the Person who is seen on every page of the Word and occupies all things. Have we become so self-occupied, so preoccupied that we have forgotten it’s all about Jesus?
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