I love when you read something about who Jesus really was and what he was really talked about, not some religious form we’ve tried to squeeze him into. What you’re about to read will challenge and inspire you to be Jesus and emulate his life. This book by Richard Rohr, Adam’s Return, continues to challenge me.

“Jesus’ language was not formal or academic language; it was more what we would call the vernacular laanguage of the dialect, using folksy metaphors about regular life, farmers, fishermen, housewives, and daily occurrences. He was more concerned about making sense to the outcasts than to the in-crowds. He downplayed titles and pedigree status symbols. He mentioned clothing only twice, one time to criticize the priests in their “robes and tassels” and the other to say “that it is only the pagans who worry about such things.” He felt free to change customs and seeming commandments. He was not a priest or even a Levite; clearly he was a layman who was not formally trained. Yet after all this, we have created liturgical orders to his honor, with detailed and enforced protocols in both Catholic and Protestant version to worship a man who never once asked to be worshiped, but only followed. We dress up for a man who tried to dress us down. We create elaborate ceremonies for a man who seldom seemed to have attended any.”