Jesus Has Left the Building

By Paul Vieira

As a journey guide, this book delivers compelling answers to some difficult questions such as: what was Jesus' original church like and how is God reshaping Christianity today? This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971804087
• ISBN13: 9780971804081
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Karis Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Returning to the core values of our faith

Jesus has left the Building Paul Vieria contacted me many months ago. his book "Jesus has left the building" really has captured my attention. the big picture is that Jesus like Elvis has left the building. Yet, the thought is, maybe Jesus was never in the building! Paul does a great job in contrasting modern and postmodern thinking in some great "talk pass" conversations. This book should be on every one's list. Paul has some unique, some not so unique but still needed, and some very insightful things to say. I think this book may be one that will change one's life.

Recognizing the Times

Are you tired of "going to church"? Finding that the institutional church is not measuring up to the church described to us in the book of Acts? Learn how many are leaving "the building" to follow Christ into deeper Christian community and LIVING OUT the true Gospel in the real world! This book is a testimony of one young man who God called out of the "religious" and into discipleship. This is Vieira's first book and I believe he does a wonderful job telling his own story about how he left the building. His book is an easy read. You will enjoy his insight into what God has done, is doing, and is going to do with the culture at large. He is setting the stage for a magnificent display of his glory. How is God doing all of this? He is raising up a generation who will no longer settle for the "religious." Vieira is prophetic in how he explains how the Lord is using the institutional church and the "Religious Right" to bring about intolerance from the world. This intolerance will do away with popular pop-culture Christianity where everyone and their dog is a "Christian" and make way for authentic Christianity shining brightly in a world of suffering and persecution. Vieira is very humble in his writing. I did not feel that he was writing with a push for people to leave the institutional church for first-century styled house church, but he leaves you wondering why you are still in the institution. If you have already left the institution like me... you will find that Vieira's message only confirms what the Lord has been speaking to you. Jesus has left the building! I think you will enjoy Vieira's honest assessment of Christianity today. He believes it's time to stop "going" to church... and start "being" the church. He does a fine job of defining "post-modern" and how the church needs to respond to Generations X and Y. Why is there such a huge generation gap in the institutional church? Because God is working in a fatherless generation who will no longer swallow dump and say, "Mmmm good!" This generation and the next wants to experience Christ and not spoon fed "religion". I am a part of Generation X. Vieira is too. And so he knows our generation. I believe his cry in this book is that this generation would no longer be Fatherless! In Vieira's point of view (and one that I share), "If you are not comfortable leaving the organized church at this time, in the near future you may not have a choice." It is comparable to Israel and the exiles. Some will never leave the comfortable religiously pagan organization of the church... only the remnant of revolutionaries will participate in God's good Kingdom in this present evil age. Those who recognize the times will be on the front line of God's story. Read this book and decide what you will do. * This book does not trace the pagan beginnings of and influences on the institutional church back these last 1700 years. For thorough research on this man-centered church... read "Paga

Excellent insight on our current Christian Culture

Paul's excellent survey of current Christian culture brings recognition to many of the feelings my parents, my friends and I have felt for some time. He has brought to light and answered many questions I have asked myself about "church" in the past. His friendly discussion-based writing style makes Jesus Has Left the Building an enjoying an engaging book to read.

A Refreshing Perspective

Paul Vieira departs from the main stream thought regarding "churchianity." Paul takes the reader on a journey back to New Testament authentic Christianity, the way the Lord Jesus Christ intended it to be. Paul gives historic insight into today's challenges facing the church to make it contemporary and brings new inspiration to the reader by inspiring us to be more like Christ. You will not find this type of theological insight any other books being published right now! This is a true prophetic insight that is close to the heart of God! It is worth reading and challenging. Every Christian should read this book!

A life-giving assessment of church without condemnation.

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings." Pr. 25:2 Paul Vieira has functioned as a glorious king presenting a panorama of God's Church from God's perspective, and explaining much of the excitment and happenings in our very pregnant day. This is a must read for serious Christians. It is a refreshing drink of cool watrer for those who have felt like an odd man out in the modern church scene. Thank you, Paul. Frank B. Smith