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Jesus Matters Something remarkable is happening; it is reported that many people are leaving the church in yet are still fascinated by Jesus. Some have been disappointed by religion. Some have been hurt by Christians. Some have walked away from church altogether. Yet they still find themselves thinking about Jesus. Part of the answer is that Jesus has a way of pursuing people long before they understand what is happening. People assume that faith begins when a person starts searching for God. Sometimes that is true. But many followers of Jesus tell a different story. Looking back, they realize that before they were searching for God, God was already searching for them. Perhaps that has happened to you. You cannot explain why Jesus continues to capture your attention. You have questions about Christianity but remain curious about Him. You have left the church but cannot completely leave Jesus behind. What you are experiencing may be more than curiosity. You may be discovering that God has been drawing you all along. What is it that Jesus offers that continues to attract people generation after generation? He speaks to two realities every human being eventually encounters. First, you want to become the person you were created to be. Like the Greeks of the ancient world, you long for a life that is authentic, meaningful, and whole. You want healthy relationships, purpose, integrity, and peace. You want your life to matter. You want to become the best version of yourself. Yet you have probably discovered that some obstacl es cannot be overcome by determination alone. Fear, selfishness, resentment, anxiety, addictions, wounds, and destructive habits often prove stronger than our best intentions. You know who you would like to become. The challenge is becoming that person. Second, like every human being, you carry things that cannot simply be forgotten. You may carry guilt for things you have done. You may carry shame for things that have been done to you. You may carry regret over opportunities lost, relationships damaged, promises broken, or years wasted. No amount of success, achievement, distraction, or self-improvement completely removes these burdens. The Bible calls these realities sin. However, as the Bible explains, sin is more than breaking rules. It is everything that damages our relationship with God, with others, and even with ourselves. It is what keeps us from becoming fully human. The Hebrew prophets understood this. They challenged people who carefully practiced religion while neglecting justice, mercy, and compassion. John the Baptist called people to repentance through honesty, generosity, and fairness. Jesus welcomed outsiders, healed the broken, confronted injustice, and restored dignity to those who had been pushed aside. Jesus understood the hunger beneath our struggles. When he said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,” he was speaking to people who knew something was wrong and longed for life to be made right. Perhaps that describes you. So, what is Jesus’ answer to these two human problems? It is not a philosophy, a self-help program, or a set of religious rules. His answer is Himself. Through His crucifixion, Jesus confronted everything that separates us from God and diminishes our humanity. He bears our sin, our guilt, our shame, and our failures. The cross is God’s declaration that no person is beyond forgiveness, beyond mercy, or beyond redemption. The cross reveals the depth of God’s love. It shows that God does not stand at a distance from human suffering and brokenness. God enters it. Jesus willingly entered the worst that human beings could do—betrayal, violence, humiliation, and death—and responded not with hatred or revenge, but with forgiveness and self-giving love. But forgiveness alone is not enough. You and I need more than a clean slate. We need a new life. That is why the resurrection matters. The resurrection is God’s declaration that sin, evil, despair, and death do not have the final word. It is the beginning of a new creation. It is the promise that people can change, wounds can heal, relationships can be restored, and hope can be renewed. Jesus not only forgives us for what we have done. He begins transforming us into the people we were created to be. The earliest Christians called this grace. Grace is not God’s overlooking our failures. Grace is God’s active presence working within us. It forgives. It heals. It restores. It strengthens. It empowers. Left to ourselves, we remain trapped between our aspirations and our limitations. We know what kind of people we want to become yet repeatedly fall short. Jesus enters that struggle and offers both forgiveness for our failures and power for transformation. This is why Jesus matters. He matters because he addresses the deepest needs of the human heart. He matters because he offers forgiveness where there is guilt. He matters because he offers healing where there is brokenness. He matters because he offers hope where there is despair. He matters because he shows us what true humanity looks like. And He matters because through his death and resurrection. He makes that new humanity possible for us. Those are the reasons Jesus continues to fascinate people—even those who have left the church—is that He has not left them. Long before many people begin searching for God, they discover signs that God was already searching for them. The invitation Jesus offered two thousand years ago remains unchanged today. When Jesus met people wrestling with life’s deepest questions, searching for meaning, purpose, truth, and hope, he did not begin with a theological system. He began with an invitation. “Follow me.” “Come and see.” That same invitation extends to you. If you are weary from carrying burdens you cannot seem to lay down, if you are searching for forgiveness, longing for authentic life, or hoping that change is still possible, listen to the words of Jesus: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” — Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus matters because he still offers that invitation today. BACK TO TOP

Discover the story behind Restored Dominion, a theological vision of the Kingdom of God shaped by Scripture, ministry experience, and a desire to see human life and communities restored. The Inspiration for Good News for Our Time In August 2014, ISIS swept across northern Iraq. Entire Yazidi villages were overrun. Thousands of men and older boys were executed. Women and young girls were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and repeatedly abused. Children were torn from their families. Hundreds of thousands fled into the mountains or crowded into refugee camps, carrying little more than the clothes they wore. Years later, we sat with some of those survivors. The men gathered before us were fathers whose wives had been taken, husbands who did not know whether they would ever see their families again, and sons whose fathers and brothers had been murdered. Everything that had once given shape to their lives—their homes, livelihoods, security, families, and community—had been stripped away. One man quietly summarized what had happened. "The ummah is broken." He was not speaking only of buildings or villages. He was grieving the collapse of an entire community. The neighbors they had trusted for generations had betrayed them to ISIS. Relationships that had held villages together had been shattered. Trust had disappeared. Their world no longer made sense. Yet in that place of unimaginable loss, another story was unfolding. An Arab Christian pastor, serving a Kurdish congregation, had opened his church and his life to these Yazidi families. Historical memory would have expected distance. Arabs, Kurds, and Yazidis had long carried the weight of conflict, suspicion, and division. Yet here they were, serving one another because of Christ. The pastor shared one of Jesus' best-known stories—the Parable of the Prodigal Son. He did not begin with politics or revenge. He spoke about the Father who runs toward broken sons and welcomes them home. He spoke about forgiveness, dignity, and the possibility that God could restore what violence had destroyed. At nearly the same time, another Arab pastor—this one in Beirut—was ministering to a very different group of people: the wives and children of suspected ISIS fighters. They too had lost everything. Their husbands were dead, imprisoned, or missing. Their communities rejected them. They carried guilt that was not necessarily their own and bore the consequences of decisions they had never made. On the surface, these two ministries appeared to stand on opposite sides of history. One cared for the victims of ISIS. The other cared for the families left behind by the ISIS perpetrators. Yet both revealed the same Kingdom. The Kingdom of God was quietly crossing boundaries that history, ethnicity, religion, and violence insisted could never be crossed. Grace was creating a community where the world expected only perpetual hostility. Invisible to most observers, the reign of God was already at work. Only later did I realize that these encounters gave language to something I had been observing for decades. The Yazidi families had lost far more than possessions. They had lost the ability to direct their own lives. Violence had stolen their freedom, fractured their relationships, destroyed their community, and stripped away their future. Even the families of ISIS fighters, though in profoundly different ways, had also lost agency, belonging, and hope. The entire region bore the marks of a community that had become deeply broken. I began to see this as the loss of dominion. Not dominion over other people, but the loss of the God-given capacity to live as human beings were created to live—bearing God's image, exercising responsible stewardship, living in trusting relationships, and participating in healthy community. Wherever fear, violence, oppression, disease, injustice, or sin destroys that calling, humanity loses something God intended from the beginning. Years later, as I reflected on these experiences with my friends Jim and David, we found ourselves returning again and again to the Gospels. We noticed that wherever Jesus went, He encountered people who had lost dominion over their lives. The poor, the sick, the excluded, the possessed, the guilty, the fearful, the widow, the orphan, and the stranger—all had been diminished by forces contrary to God's purposes. Everywhere Jesus went, He restored what had been taken. Those conversations eventually became the foundation for a book: How Jesus Changes the World. The more we reflected, the more we realized that this was not a new insight. God had been teaching our family this lesson for generations. Long before we met Yazidi families in northern Iraq, Connie's parents, Grady and Evelyn Mangham, had lived through another humanitarian catastrophe. After years of missionary service in Vietnam, they watched the war end with the collapse of South Vietnam and the desperate flight of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Their love for Jesus and people drew them into action. They became part of the early efforts to welcome and resettle Vietnamese refugee families who arrived in North America with little more than the hope of beginning again. Few people experience the loss of dominion more completely than refugees. War strips away home, country, language, possessions, livelihood, identity, and often family itself. Refugees do not simply lose a place to live; they lose the ability to shape the course of their own lives. Yet through the patient work of welcome, friendship, discipleship, and community, God begins restoring what violence has stolen. The same pattern continued throughout our years of missionary service in Indonesia and later through humanitarian work with World Relief. Whether responding to earthquakes, floods, famine, conflict, or forced displacement, the immediate needs were obvious: food, water, shelter, medicine, and safety. But another need was just as urgent. Disaster devastates the human spirit. It leaves fear where there was once confidence, isolation where there was once community, despair where there was once hope. The work of relief is never complete until people recover not only the necessities of life but also the dignity, hope, purpose, relationships, and faith that enable them to live as God's image bearers once again. Over time, we came to recognize that this pattern extends beyond humanitarian crises. Humanity itself lives under the greatest disaster of all. Sin has distorted our hearts, our minds, our relationships, and our stewardship of creation. Death stands before every one of us, making loss seem like the final word. In that sense, the human story is one long narrative of lost dominion. The Gospel announces that death does not have the final word. In Jesus Christ, God entered our broken world, bore its sin, defeated its death, and opened the way to restored life. Those who follow Him to the cross, embrace His Spirit, and walk in His way begin to experience even now the restoration of what was lost. Though the fullness of God's Kingdom still awaits its consummation, its restoring power is already at work—in individuals, families, churches, and communities. Wherever Christ reigns, dominion begins to be restored. Only then did we realize that what we had witnessed in northern Iraq, in Beirut, in refugee resettlement, in Indonesia, and in humanitarian ministry around the world was not a series of disconnected experiences. They were all expressions of the same Kingdom. They were all glimpses of the same redeeming work of God. The theology of Restored Dominion did not begin as an abstract idea. It emerged from listening to people, sharing their struggles, serving alongside churches and communities around the world, and then returning to Scripture with fresh questions. Again and again, the biblical story revealed the same truth: God's redemptive work is always about restoring His people so they may once again reflect His character and participate in His purposes for the world. The pages that follow are an invitation to read Scripture through that lens. From Genesis to Revelation, the story of God is the story of His determination to restore what sin, violence, fear, injustice, and death have taken away. The Kingdom of God is God's great work of restored dominion, and Jesus Christ is its King. That conviction lies behind every page of the books that follow. Back Home

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