A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
Written by Brian Zahnd
Narrated by Dean Gallagher
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We know Jesus the Savior, but have we met Jesus, Prince of Peace?
When did we accept vengeance as an acceptable part of the Christian life? How did violence and power seep into our understanding of faith and grace? For those troubled by this trend toward the sword, perhaps there is a better way.
What if the message of Jesus differs radically differs from the drumbeats of war we hear all around us?
Using his own journey from war crier to peacemaker and his in-depth study of peace in the Scriptures, author and pastor Brian Zahnd reintroduces us to the gospel of Peace.
©2014 David C. Cook (P)2014 Oasis Audio
Brian Zahnd
Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. Known for his theologically informed preaching and his embrace of the deep and long history of the church, Zahnd provides a forum for pastors to engage with leading theologians and is a frequent conference speaker. He is the author of several books, including When Everything's on Fire, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, A Farewell to Mars, and Beauty Will Save the World.
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Reviews for A Farewell to Mars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very well written and tightly reasoned book. I have long been opposed to violence and war, and I believed that the Gospel of Jesus demanded such. This book provides some very cogent arguments for just such a stance. Christ's death pn the cross, a death by violence, represented the death of violence. Christ's kingdom, His peaceable kingdom was started when he was here on earth and now that He has risen, and is at the right hand of God, this kingdom endures, and it is a kingdom of peace, not of war.
Christians have too long allowed Christianity to act as the chaplain of our nation, and others, somehow expecting God's blessing on us as we go to war against evil in the world. The problem is, war is not how evil should be battled, but rather by peace. We are to be the peacemakers of Christ's kingdom. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Modern evangelical Christians stripped Jesus Christ to only being the part of the Godhead, a personal Savior that forgives our sins and grants us a ticket to heaven. What did we make of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, as e.g. Isiah prophesied, and Jesus Christ himself spoke of in the Gospels? When and why did we accept warfare in the name of God, vengeance and us versus them thinking? Brian Zahn rediscovered the missing pieces in his understanding of the Bible, repented from the war prayers he prayed during the Gulf War and 9/11. He doesn't like to be coined as pacifist, he just wants to be a follower of Christ, a Christian. Zahnd shows that since Cain murdered his brother Able as if he was his enemy, and lied about the murder to God, the evil brought empires to raise and fall, leading to a creation that's waiting for restoration and the Kingdom of God become manifest. Instead of turning to the sword, worshiping the god of warfare (Mars) nowadays, there's a better way. Freedom, not as a patriotic value becoming an excuse for war, but freedom as equivalent for brotherly love. Brian Zahnd reintroduces his readers to the gospel of Peace and bids A Farewell to Mars. An important message for a Church for centuries intertwined with the sword-bearing empires of this world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5BZ does it again. He gets it, he truly gets it. The American Church desperately needs to heed this message
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think this book is the truth filled message every follower of Jesus needs to hear! I give him a lot of credit for coming to the real Jesus and preaching Him to us.