THE JESUS RECORD: The Gospel vs. The Religion Built in Its Place

In the early 40s AD, a watching city in Antioch coined a new word for a community whose lives pointed so unmistakably to one person that no existing label would do: Christianos. We know whose you are.The question this book asks is simple: does the watching world say that today?The Jesus Record is a forensic examination of the distance between the man in the gospels and the institution built in his name — documented, named, and held against the actual record of what Jesus said, did, refused, and died for. The prosperity formula. The violence blessed. The political capture. The celebrity machine. The governance model that produces the scandal before any specific leader makes the specific choice.Every chapter ends the same way: the institutional record on one side, the Jesus record on the other. The gap between them is the argument.But this book is not a demolition project. It is a search party. The grief in these pages is in service of recovery — because the man the name was coined for is not the institution, the Antioch definition was never cancelled, and the record is still open to anyone willing to read it honestly.He is the answer to the distortion of him. Read more