Would Jesus Be a Good Fit on Your Church Staff?

Would Jesus Be a Good Fit on Your Church Staff?

That’s right. I’m convinced that Jesus would be fired after a few months if he were hired on staff at a typical church today. Years ago I wrote a book titled Firing Jesus. Its premise was this: What if Jesus were hired as a youth leader by a run-of-the-mill church? Set in an emergency elders meeting, Firing Jesus grapples with how to manage a 30-year-old youth leader named J.C. Davidson (Son of David), who was rocking the boat with his radical m…