Jesus Mean and Wild | Mark Galli
by Matt McCarnan on July 5th, 2007
Mark Galli. Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God. Baker, 2006. 208 pp.
I once wrote an article for a leading Christian publication and in one part noted how “mean” Jesus was at times. My seminary-educated editor deleted the paragraphs, and when I asked why, she said I was taking the verses out of context, and it would take too much space to explain that Jesus wasn’t really mean. I replied that these were but a sampling of passages where Jesus seemed pretty intimidating. I gave two more examples. She stared at me hard. Then she blinked in seeming irritation as she said, “I can explain those too.”
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