Eli

I'm re-reading Bill Myers' book Eli.  Myers asks: What if Jesus had not come until today? Who would follow him? Who would kill him?

So you have a world of today that has never heard of Jesus.  And this weird guy shows up, teaching weird things, and doing weird (miraculous) things. Our protagonist, Conrad Davis, is a highly successful investigative reporter who starts off in our "normal" world and is thrust into that "abnormal" world by a near-fatal car accident. Conrad "knows" the story, but doesn't believe it...but when he starts to experience the story with Jesus, now that's when things start to happen.

Conrad is a bit like me, enough so that the old, old story still brings tears to my eyes. Anything that does that, always gets my vote. Bill has painted the old story in beautiful colors of compassion, truth, and intimacy. Find it, read it. Even if the normal-world parts of the story slow you down, you could actually skip them and still have a great reminder of Jesus and his love. And his willingness to do anything to catch us before the brink of eternity - it's never too late.

Shalom.