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Awakening to the Relevant Jesus

An Interview with Matt Mikalatos
Awakening to the Relevant Jesus

Today’s interview is with Matt Mikalatos. Matt is an author, a speaker, and (we suspect) a closeted fan of 50's B movies, as well as co-host of a group podcast.

Matt's latest book The First Time We Saw Him: Awakening to the Wonder of Jesus takes the parables of Jesus and retells them in a modern setting. Today we talk to Matt about making the gospels relevant, the power of storytelling, and interacting with the true Jesus.

1) There is such a culture gap between the world of Jesus and his disciples and our world today, does this affect the way we read and understand the Scriptures?

Misunderstandings in cross-cultural situations are to be expected, and in this case we’re separated not only by national culture but by thousands of years. Comments and actions that would have been immediately understood by Jesus’ contemporaries require commentary, explanation and translation. As a result, many of us feel that digesting scripture requires study, footnotes, asides, ...

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