How to Be Perfect: One Church's Audacious Experiment In Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus - eBook
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How to Be Perfect: One Church's Audacious Experiment In Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus - eBook  -     By: Daniel Harrell

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Title: How to Be Perfect: One Church's Audacious Experiment In Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus - eBook
By: Daniel Harrell
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: FaithWords
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780446574396
ISBN-13: 9780446574396
Stock No: WW7747EB

Publisher's Description

Influenced by A. J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Biblically, Harrell managed to recruit 20 members of his Boston congregation to join him in a month-long effort at living Levitically. Holiness was the ultimate goal, but so was learning.

People who take the Bible seriously never know what to do with the book of Leviticus. And yet Leviticus is historically considered by Jews, and thus by Jesus, as the pivotal book of the Hebrew Bible. It's impossible to fully comprehend such key New Testament terms as sacrifice, atonement, or blood without some understanding of Leviticus. The "second greatest commandment," which Jesus said was "Love your neighbor as yourself," comes from Leviticus (19:18).

As a longtime minister and preacher who had successfully skirted Leviticus for most of his life, author Daniel Harrell wanted to come to grips with all that Leviticus teaches -- not just loving neighbors, but the parts about animal sacrifice, Sabbath-keeping, skin diseases, homosexuality, and stoning sinners, too. Yet rather than approaching Leviticus with a view toward mitigating its commands, he decided to simply obey them.

The surprising lessons they learned impressed on Harrell both the power of obedience and the necessity of grace. This book traces the adventures of a group of people eager to understand the Bible by living it.

Author Bio

Daniel M. Harrell is senior minister of Colonial Church in Edina, Minnesota. For twenty-three years he served as a minister at Park Street Church in downtown Boston. He is the author of Nature's Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Leadership Journal, Christianity Today, the Christian Century, and Regeneration Quarterly. He holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Boston College and has lectured at Fuller Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Gordon College, and Boston University. He lives somewhat obediently by grace in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter.

Publisher's Weekly

The often baffling book of laws for Jewish priests known as Leviticus is typically dismissed by Christians as outdated legalese no longer binding on people of the New Testament. Harrell, who served as pastor of the evangelical Park Street Church in downtown Boston for 23 years, doesn’t let that get in the way of his sincere desire to understand God and the Bible in its entirety. Inspired by a secular experiment that became the successful book The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, Harrell proposes a one-month experiment to “live levitically.” Eighteen church members join him in a quest to “be holy because I, the Lord your God, am Holy,” as the text repeatedly intones. The result is a series of reflections by Harrell and his followers--many communicating with each other via a Facebook page dedicated to the project--on keeping the Sabbath, abstaining from pork, and refraining from sexual deviancy as the Bible defines it. The resulting pastiche of responses is, for the most part, generous, compassionate, and thoughtful. This book will be appreciated not for its historical understanding of Judaism but for its attempt at living devotionally. (Jan.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.

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