by Rick Mckinley
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Good News Unpacked
Jesus is our ultimate model for finding identity, acceptance, and legitimacy from the Father. As we pull back the curtain on His life, we discover that Jesus knows what it’s like to be marginalized. He understands how it feels to have society shove you to the side, to not really be accepted, and in the end to be totally rejected. He can identify with life in the margins because when God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, He landed in the margins. On purpose. And He chose to land there because it’s in the margins that broken lives get mended, prisoners are set free, and the poor hear the Good News.
Reimagine Your Life
Welcome to the crowded margins of life. It’s a place where normal people don’t feel normal. Where the daily grind drowns out the soft cry within that says, “I do not have it together.” Where just beneath the surface we long for meaning and—dare we hope?—wholeness.
Rick McKinley writes from experience: Only God can rescue a person from the margins. Why? Because when He came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, in the margins is where he landed. On purpose. To find you.
Don’t wait till you get yourself together. Meet Jesus in the margins just as you are, and reimagine your life through the lens of His transforming love.
Story Behind the Book
This book was birthed out of Rick’s ministry at Imago Dei Community Church. Rick’s heart is to communicate God’s Word in an understandable way to those who are outside the reach of traditional churches. He often calls this “unpacking the gospel”—a gospel he sees as the predominant theme in all of Scripture. Rick says the kind of people he ministers to “are not afraid of the language of theology, but the theological ideas need to be brought down from the mountain.”
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 If you never felt good enough, Read this, 2008-02-18
This book started off slow for me. At first it seemed like this book was just testimonies and stories with little tieback to how things are. Rick though has compiled great stories that illustrate many of the questions we have about God. Stuff like I God loves me then why do bad things happen and God doesn't like me if he doesn't answer my prayers. For all those who have pondered whether or not they are good enough should read this book. Rick calls this "margins". This book builds as he makes the case how Jesus calls us from our questioning and living in the "margins".
For those hurting, questioning, and seeking, read this book. You may find yourself in the margins with the likes of Rick and me. How Jesus pulls us from our doubt to true relationship with Him.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
 Fans of Don Miller may like to branch out to Rick McKinley, 2006-10-16
I am a non-Christian, and this book has a lot to offer for anyone thinking about becoming a Christian or wanting to learn more about the religion, but who are turned off by traditional churches or Christians.
McKinley gives personal accounts from members of his church and talks about how Jesus's words and actions were often very different from those of mainstream American Christans. Jesus hung out with the losers, the outcasts, the people that many sheltered American Christians would not look in the eye as they passed them on the street.
Rick shows us specific ways of inviting God into our lives and allowing God to help us through any difficulties in our lives. He also talks about how we can help others and how people following Jesus might behave - in a radically welcoming, giving, loving way.
This is a healing book for those of us who have felt anger at the mainstream church but feel that the Christian religion might have something to offer. I am not a Christian but this book helped heal a lot of my sore feelings towards the religion.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Jesus reaches out to us no matter where we are, 2006-09-29
Jesus in the Margins by Rick McKinley is a good read about how Jesus reaches out to the outcasts of society. McKinley writes with genuine sympathy and emotion. He points out the truth that we each in our own way are all hurting and feeling like outcasts. Too many people are just going through the motions and pretending that everything is ok, because they are too afraid, even within their own church, to reveal their pain. He makes some terrific points, but I guess this wasn't the right book for me at this point in my life. I didn't feel that he made any points that haven't already been made elsewhere.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A worthwhile read, 2006-09-18
Rick McKinley's "Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore" is a worthwhile read for followers of Christ. It reveals some profound truths about Jesus' attitude toward those who our society considers "down and out" and presents its readers with the opportunity to do a self-examination with regards to his/her attitudes toward other people to don't readily fit his/her ideals. It is a bit repetitive at times, but all in all is a quick and meaninful read. Ultimately I believe it has inspired me to be a better lover of Jesus and my fellow man.
RJC
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 good book, not bad, not great, 2006-09-07
Rick McKinley is Pastor of a beautiful collective known as Imago Dei Community in Portland, Oregon. He is also the Pastor of the much touted Donald Miller, author of "Blue Like Jazz" and "Seraching For God Knows What".
He takes many of Don's ideas and presents them in a more pastoral way, with anecdotes, and his own experiences. He is a very wise man, whos love for people shines through beautifully. The book is put together nice, with "postcards" from people at the begining talking about their struggles, whether it be sexual abuse, or materialism, and Rick takes those issues head on.
He wants to reach those in the margins of life, the ones the mainstream church often shuns, or more likely forgets. I think what he is trying to do is great, but the book wasn't executed as well as it could have been. If you have read many Christian books, this isn't for you. For the most part he often regurgitates what we know already,but it may give you the kick in the butt you need to get out there in the dirt and gutters and help thoise who need God the most. I would recomend this book for those who are just coming into the Christian Faith though.
3.5 stars
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