Love Like Jesus

Based on Kurt Bennett's popular-ish blog God Running, Love Like Jesus begins with the story of how after a life of regular church attendance and Bible study, Bennett was challenged by a pastor to study Jesus. That led to an obsessive seven-year deep dive. After pouring over Jesus' every interaction with another human being, he realized he was doing a much better job of studying Jesus' words than he was following Jesus' words and example. The honest and fearless revelations of Bennett's own moral failures affirm he wrote this book for himself as much as for others.

Love Like Jesus examines a variety of stories, examples, and research, including:

-Specific examples of how Jesus communicated God's love to others.

-How Jesus demonstrated all five of Gary Chapman's love languages (and how you can too).

-The story of how Billy Graham extended Christ's extraordinary love and grace toward a man who misrepresented Jesus to millions.

-How to respond to critics the way Jesus did.

-How to love unlovable people the way Jesus did.

-How to survive a life of loving like Jesus (or how not to become a Christian doormat).

-How Jesus didn't love everyone the same (and why you shouldn't either).

-How Jesus guarded his heart by taking care of himself--he even napped--and why you should do the same.-How Jesus loved his betrayer Judas, even to the very end.

With genuine unfiltered honesty, Love Like Jesus, shows you how to live a life according to God's definition of success: A life of loving God well, and loving the people around you well too.

A life of loving like Jesus.

1. Opening Credits
2. Imitating Jesus
3. Part 1: Examples
4. Chapter 1: Billy Graham, Jim Bakker, and a Sinking Man
5. Chapter 2: Grace and Truth
6. Chapter 3: Jesus and the Critic
7. Chapter 4: Jesus and the Control Freak
8. Chapter 5: Touch
9. Chapter 6: Love the Lost Cause
10. Chapter 7: Give Like Jesus
11. Chapter 8: Don't Love Everyone the Same
12. Chapter 9: Pray Like Jesus
13. Chapter 10: No Family or Rich Friends
14. Chapter 11: Heal Like Jesus
15. Chapter 12: Even If It Disrupts Your Sabbath
16. Chapter 13: Calm the Storm
17. Chapter 14: Forgiveness and Paralysis
18. Chapter 15: Open the Door to Heaven
19. Chapter 16: Make Friends with Money
20. Part 2: Practical Help
21. Chapter 17: Jesus and the 5 Love Languages
22. Chapter 18: Jesus and Anger
23. Chapter 19: Jesus and the Charisma Myth
24. Part 3: Foundational Practices of Jesus
25. Chapter 20: Love God First
26. Chapter 21: Find Friends Like Jesus
27. Chapter 22: Jesus and the Holy Spirit
28. Chapter 23: Jesus and the Fluid Life
29. Chapter 24: Guard Your Heart Like Jesus
30. Chapter 25: Go Deep Like Jesus
31. Chapter 26: Stay Faithful Like Jesus
32. Chapter 27: Fast Like Jesus
33. Chapter 28: Surviving a Life of Loving Like Jesus
34. Chapter 29: Die Like Jesus
35. Conclusion
36. Chapter 30: Jesus and Your Resurrection
37. Chapter 31: Before the Seven-Year Deep Dive into Jesus—and After
38. About the Author
39. Closing Credits