Daring to Think Again: Restoring Jesus' Original Challenge to the Faith We Think We Know (The Fifth Way)

When was the last time you really thought about your faith?
The last time you chewed on what you believe, why you believe it, and what keeps you believing?

Western Christianity often shies away from this sort of questioning, fearing it as a mark of faithlessness. But what if Jesus were telling you it’s exactly what you need? What if he were inviting you to join him on a journey of shedding what is unnecessary for the sake of embracing a fuller, deeper, and healthier faith?

Dave Brisbin believes this is exactly what Jesus is challenging us to engage.

In Daring to Think Again, Brisbin challenges us to rethink the often toothless spiritual traditions we have accepted, in favor of discovering the real Jesus—one who offers an approach to thought and growth that stands opposed to our common formulas of faith. Rather than wrestling others into our frames of knowledge in an attempt to cement our hold on truth, Jesus suggests the greatest spiritual truths are held only when we have finally released our grasp on the way we have been trained to see our world, our faith, and our God.

This powerfully fresh and deconstructive look at twelve foundational aspects of Christian tradition dares us to relinquish what hinders us for the sake of gaining back what is vital. We must “sell the filter” through which we read the scriptures in order to fully see them; we must abandon our traditional frames of thought concerning Jesus to truly know Him.

Dave Brisbin’s Daring to Think Again falls into the depths with us as we surrender our death grip on Western understanding and choose to seek renewed faith, radiant life, and the real Jesus.

David Brisbin, MDiv/LPPC is teaching pastor at theeffect faith community and recovery ministry in San Juan Capistrano, CA. He is also executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center. His twenty five year study of the Hebrew roots of Jesus and Christianity led to his ground level approach to both spiritual formation and substance abuse recovery, processes he sees as one and the same from a practical and contemplative point of view. In addition to guiding people directly at theeffect and remotely through distance learning, his first book, The Fifth Way is available along with several audio series and hundreds of podcasts.