The Barbarian Way by Erwin Raphael McManus

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The book I have just read has officially turned my life upside down. I'm ready for a new adventure. Im ready to take life by the horns and not let anything get in my way. Erwin McManus writes about the life of most "Christians" and how they have become civilized  as opossed to barbaric! I do NOT want to be civilized anymore. I want to be like my

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I think that tradition has taken the place of truth in a lot of cases, but I don't think that is grounds for disrespecting tradition. I'm not saying tolerate un-Biblical living, be it wrong focus or straight up wrong beliefs...but I believe the abandonment of all institution is an immature concept.

While he makes some good points on focusing on Jesus and not religion, I think a lot of his details (from the excerpts, mind you, I haven't read the book myself) seem either gross oversight or semantic nit-picking. Either way it's bad grounds for proving any kind of point, especially a definitive direction for revamping Christian thought. And that's one of the minor things he picks at...he seems to think that "Christian" and "Christianity" are bad words. They are mere titles for a general body of believers. They do, however, carry weight in their meaning. Emperor Justinian was in the lineage ("-ian") of Justin, hence his name. We are not merely followers of Jesus, but after the latin-based term, heirs in his lineageThe word "