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    A New King: Encountering the Risen Son
    A New King: Encountering the Risen Son
    A New King: Encountering the Risen Son
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    A New King: Encountering the Risen Son

    By Paul S. Jeon and Brian Forman

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    A benevolent and wise king who puts his subjects before himself--who can find? The majority of rulers throughout history, up to the present age, live for their own comfort and glory. But there was one king who became a servant and died to save all his servants. He was a king like no other. This short book invites you to walk through the last two chapters of Luke's Gospel and encounter the risen Son who will give you the hope and purpose you have been searching for.
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    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781532650192
    A New King: Encountering the Risen Son
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    Paul S. Jeon

    PAUL S. JEON (PhD, Catholic University of America) is visiting professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary (DC), an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, and lead pastor of NewCity Church. He is also the author of two books published by Wipf & Stock: Introducing Romans (2010) and True Faith (2012).

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      A New King - Paul S. Jeon

      A New King

      Encountering the Risen Son

      Paul S. Jeon

      Foreword by Brian Forman

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      A New King

      Encountering the Risen Son

      Copyright © 2018 Paul S. Jeon. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The King on Trial

      Chapter 2: The King Dies

      Chapter 3: The King Rises

      Chapter 4: The King Accompanies

      Chapter 5: The King Appears

      Bibliography

      In Honor of Cornelius Van Til, 
William Edgar, and Scott Oliphint

      Foreword

      I celebrated my first Easter nearly five years ago in 2013. It was a bitter-sweet experience. Traumatizing and liberating in the same moment. For the first time in my life, I began to process who Jesus was and is. Of all people—I was now a Christian? How could it be?

      Not longer after, I met Paul Jeon. He regularly sought me out and met with me for coffee, dinner, dessert, errands, and so forth. Any excuse he could think of to meet with me, that’s what he did. Once strangers, we soon became close friends and co-laborers for the gospel.

      One day Pastor Paul told me about seminary (he had to explain what it was). It sounded like a great idea; I wanted to learn everything that I had missed out on for my entire life: the Bible, Christianity, the list goes on. So I went. From then onward, Paul wore many hats in my life: Dr. Jeon on campus, Pastor Paul in church, and Paul my friend the rest of the time. As I reflect on it now, Paul, like the apostle Paul before him, has been many things to many people (1 Corinthians 9:22), and for me he’s been all things so that I might know Jesus Christ better through our relationship.

      As someone who once hated Christianity (and especially Christians), I’m drawn to Paul because he loves conversing with all kinds of people—Christians, non-Christians, skeptics—you name it. I bring that up because whichever you are (and you are one of them), he wrote this book for you. There’s no grand, lofty speech. Just raw honesty about the way things are for anyone who is human.

      This book gets at an important question: What is the Easter message? If you think you know the answer, maybe you don’t. That’s not an insult, just a possible fact. Before I was a Christian, I thought I knew—and I didn’t. The thing is, even if you think you know what Easter is, why not be sure of it?

      Wherever you are in life, it makes me glad that you would pick up this book. In the same way I’ve benefited from Dr. Jeon’s brilliant scholarship, Pastor Paul’s guidance, and my friend Paul’s humanness, I trust you will as well. Who knows, at the end of it all this might be the first Easter you celebrate.

      Brian Forman

      February 22, 2018

      Acknowledgments

      First, I want to thank my research assistant Brian Forman whose contributions are far too many to enumerate. Without his tireless and meticulous efforts, this book would have never come to fruition. Second, I thank the Burris family, the Oh family, and my siblings whose benefaction greatly facilitated the completion of this project. Third, I thank Tim Keller whose reflections on the last two chapters of Luke shaped both the structure and content of much of this book. He remains a model of humility and wisdom. Finally, I thank my family, especially my wife, and my church-family, NewCity, for making life and ministry such a delight.

      Introduction

      I have been a Christian for some years now. It’s hard to know exactly how long. You could say that I gave my life to Jesus during a retreat at the age of ten. But I don’t think I knew what the gospel meant at the time. All I knew was that Jesus had died for my sins and that if I believed in him, I would have eternal life. From that point, I began to read the Bible on a regular basis, was involved with my church’s youth program, and suspected that at some point I would go to seminary.

      It wasn’t until my junior year at college that the gospel began to take on real substance. This happened through my college fellowship’s study of Romans. It was during this time big words like justification and glorification began to make some sense. It was also during this time I was at a crossroad: should I continue on the path of finance or should I become a pastor? Not that one is inherently more spiritual than the other. By this point, I had accrued enough formal study and experience to have a working knowledge of what life as an investment banker would be like. But I still wasn’t sure what it meant to be a pastor. I felt like what was critical to answering this question was getting to know Jesus much better. So I decided to take a break from finance and devoted the next several years to focused theological studies at Westminster Theological Seminary.

      My formal theological education was rich. But even richer was the experience of encountering people who were very intelligent and who very much loved God. These people included professors and the student body, many of whom had already suffered much for the sake of making the gospel known. It was also during this period I encountered Jesus in a more personal and powerful way than ever before. It was probably some mix of focused theological study, actual pastoral experience, and extended times of reflection, quietness, and meditation that allowed for this. My conclusion from this time was that Jesus is a king like no other who had to be proclaimed—not because in some way he was an insecure being who required special attention, but because we live in a world desperately in need of the sort of hope he has brought by his resurrection.

      I’ve enjoyed meeting many people over the years who take issue with Christianity. Many say they can’t believe because the Christian faith doesn’t square with any thinking and rational mind. But in my experience, most of such people have suffered some negative personal experience with Christianity. Some have been either abused by religious authority or know of others that have. Some have felt condemned. Others have engaged professing believers and have experienced nothing but ungrace. All in all, they have said, If that’s Christianity, I want nothing to do with it.

      It is most unfortunate that adherents of the faith continue to misrepresent the faith either by their teaching or their conduct (or both). But one thing I have become increasingly confident of is that a direct and personal encounter with the risen Son can change a person—perhaps even convert a person to believing that Jesus was the God-man who died for sinners and was raised for their glory. Gandhi purportedly said, I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Perhaps a necessary first step, then, is to meet the Christ hidden behind the Christians. Who knows? By doing so—by encountering the Son—you may perhaps better understand and even come to love the terrible Christians for whom he died.

      This book is purposefully short. It walks the reader through

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