Title: Jesus Through the Eyes of Women
Author: Rebecca McLaughlin
Pages: 180
"Christianity is oppressive to women." It's a sentence I've heard and read many times. We live in a culture that is immersed in third wave feminism. As someone who was raised in a Christian home, it's hard for me to imagine the worldview with which the secular world looks at Jesus and the Bible. I want to disagree with them but I haven’t always been very articulate explaining my side.
Enter Jesus Through the Eyes of Women. This book takes an important look at how the women who lived during Jesus' life and ministry would have seen him. It gives us a look at how highly Jesus valued women and how Christianity actually turned the culture upside down with how it treated women.
I was studying Luke as I read this book and it was really cool to read it alongside all the biblical accounts that she references in the book. I highly recommend studying/reading one of the four gospels as you read this book.
Favorite Quote: "How do we see Jesus through these women's eyes? We see him as the one who heals our hurts and meets our needs. We see him as the one who takes our sin upon himself and welcomes us with unimaginable love. We see him as the one who sees us, even when all others turn away, and as the one who welcomes us to learn from him and pour our meager love out at his feet. We see him as the one who is the Savior of the world and yet knows us each by name even if we answer to the most common name in town."
If you are interested in reading this book, you can purchase it through my affiliate link here. This book would make a wonderful Christmas gift for the women in your life.
