"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that could be written." John 21:25
To think that we only have a small glimpse of all that Jesus did is staggering. After all, this is the most accounted life in the history of humanity.
It would be great to have more books about the life of Jesus from eyewitnesses, but we don't. God gave us all we needed (and probably, more accurately, all we could handle). I wish there were more books, selfishly, because I just love books. I like the feel of them, and I feel as if in many of them that I am being personally discipled in faith by the author. But books, because there are so many, must not be ingested indiscriminately. There are some bad ones out there for sure.
That said, I am asked about books a lot - what I recommend about this subject or that theme. And even though I have some of those listed on this website, I thought maybe I would pass on to you a bibliography of sorts, arranged by theme, that might prove useful to you should you ever want to dive in to any of these subjects.
Philosophy of Mission - God's Missionary People by Charles Van Engen; The Once and Future Church by Loren Mead; Missional Church by Darrell Guder; The Shaping of Things to Come and The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch; Invading Secular Space by Martin Robinson and Dwight Smith; The Open Secret by Leslie Newbigin; Let The Nations Be Glad by John Piper.
Apologetics - The Reason for God by Tim Keller; Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis; Simply Christian by N.T. Wright; Jesus Among Other gods by Ravi Zacharias; Beyond Death by Gary Habermas; God and Other Minds by Alvin Plantinga.
Spiritual Formation/Spiritual Disciplines - The Divine Conspiracy, Renovation of the Heart, The Great Omission, Hearing God, and The Spirit of the Disciplines all by Dallas Willard; Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero; The Rest of God by Mark Buchanan, Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas.
Leadership - Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders; Spiritual Leadership by Henry Blackaby; The Making of a Leader by Robert Clinton; The Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley; In the Name of Jesus by Henry Nouwen.
Well, that ought to give you enough to read for the next few years if you so choose.
Happy reading!
