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The Ancient Road Rediscovered: What the Early Church knew...
James Jordan’s latest book, The Ancient Road Rediscovered, is an incisive look at what has gone wrong in our Christian experience. Why are so many leaving Christian ministry and losing faith due to burnout? Is there something amiss with the gospel that has been preached to us? The word ‘gospel’ means good news. Much of what has been presented as the Gospel has turned out to be the opposite of good news for many Christians. Many have walked away from faith and many are exhausted and collapsing from burnout. This book presents the Gospel as truly good news. It is a prophetic call to the Body of Christ that a new day is dawning. As the substance of the Father’s love sweeps through the Church it brings a radically different perspective which challenges the accepted norms of what we know Christianity to be, but it brings the tremendous liberty of the Gospel that was first preached by the apostles and the early Church.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 13, 2014
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February 1, 2021
This book is phenomenal. Paradigm shifting and filled with incredible revelation. Read this book if you want your understanding of God's love to be challenged, and grown. This book challenges the idea that Christianity is all about doing the right thing as opposed to the wrong thing.. in fact this book proposes this is the core lie that keeps us from living in God's love.
June 10, 2017
An extremely important book -- repairs basic simple Christianity in a way most don't realize it is broken. I feel the gospel has somewhat been lost, in that the true freedom offered to us by God is too easily missed by those who are raised and nurtured by the vast majority of the institutional church, which is ridden with the subtle yet limiting trap of self-righteousness (and false humility, vanity, etc.)
What is the original problem with man? We ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What is the answer to the root of so many our problems? Stop eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is a choice. If we do what we think is right, and judge it to be right, and pat ourselves on the back, we are judges and gods who are judging rightness of the universe, and we do not let our Father be God, who created a life for us without the futile burden of having to be a god-judge all the time.
And if we do something that is wrong, we can condemn ourselves (those who are not goody two-shoes in the church may struggle with perfectionism, but they do not struggle as comprehensively with this as much as backsliders.) But in Christ we are not condemned, so we don't need to be eating the knowledge of evil either.
I am not sure I said that well and it has been about a year since I read the book, but I remember it laid a freeing foundation in my Christianity that I already realized was missing from my life. I feel it is urgent that this message, and the message of Fatherheart Ministries in general, reach the church, because it is a truer (less polluted or pollutable) gospel than the de facto one many end up with.
What is the original problem with man? We ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What is the answer to the root of so many our problems? Stop eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is a choice. If we do what we think is right, and judge it to be right, and pat ourselves on the back, we are judges and gods who are judging rightness of the universe, and we do not let our Father be God, who created a life for us without the futile burden of having to be a god-judge all the time.
And if we do something that is wrong, we can condemn ourselves (those who are not goody two-shoes in the church may struggle with perfectionism, but they do not struggle as comprehensively with this as much as backsliders.) But in Christ we are not condemned, so we don't need to be eating the knowledge of evil either.
I am not sure I said that well and it has been about a year since I read the book, but I remember it laid a freeing foundation in my Christianity that I already realized was missing from my life. I feel it is urgent that this message, and the message of Fatherheart Ministries in general, reach the church, because it is a truer (less polluted or pollutable) gospel than the de facto one many end up with.
December 11, 2022
Life Changing!
If you are one of those believers that feel "there's got to be more than this", this book will reveal what real Christianity was/is really all about.
This book is profound and bears witness in so many levels. It shows the way to true sonship, not by striving, but by "being" and being transformed by our Father's love that empowered Jesus as the perfect example.
James Jordan also has a first book, get that too!
Listening to a preacher versus listening to someone who has a real intimate relationship with the Father as a son is night and day and will bear witness to your spirit.
If you are one of those believers that feel "there's got to be more than this", this book will reveal what real Christianity was/is really all about.
This book is profound and bears witness in so many levels. It shows the way to true sonship, not by striving, but by "being" and being transformed by our Father's love that empowered Jesus as the perfect example.
James Jordan also has a first book, get that too!
Listening to a preacher versus listening to someone who has a real intimate relationship with the Father as a son is night and day and will bear witness to your spirit.
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