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The Visit: Would You Be Ready?
 
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The Visit: Would You Be Ready? (Hardcover)

by Adrian Plass (Author), Ben Ecclestone (Illustrator)
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House; First Edition edition (1 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0551032235
  • ISBN-13: 978-0551032231
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 394,099 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A beautifully illustrated gift book by this best-selling author This moving story about a long-awaited visitor to a present-day church, is illustrated in full colour by Ben Ecclestone, and is a wonderful reminder of the purpose of Christ's visit 2,000 years ago. The visit doesn't go at all as expected -- for a start, the visitor takes the church to the pub and gives away his clothes to the down and out. The man chosen to organise the visit finds it more than disturbing: in fact the visitor's reluctance to go with the respectable way of doing things brings him almost to a breakdown. What does this man expect from him? Our organiser has much to learn...or maybe it's us who have more to learn than we'd care to admit?

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking and stimulating, 24 Nov 2000
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Adrian Plass has a knack of taking difficult or complicated issues and making them less intimidating - and so it is with 'The Visit'. It is the story of the return of the Leader of the Church, Jesus, and how his time is spent. The book is short, but each chapter deals with a mine-field, most of which we can all empathise in one way or another. Of course the way Jesus deals with each of these situations differs from what you would expect. There are several warm moments, such as Jesus's desire to improve his snooker, and asking for some food when he first arrives at church. The overall message that the book conveys is the love that Jesus has for each of us, as friends, and not some intimidating , judging policeman in the sky.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully touching book., 16 Jan 2002
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All about christian's stupidities, expectations and fears when it comes to the Lord's return, written in a subtile way. If you mildly want to laugh about us christians and meanwhile learn things about the Lord's return, you definately got to read this.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Plass falls into his own trap: a fictional Jesus., 30 Jun 2001
Adrian Plass has garnered quite a reputation in Great Britain for his best-selling books, chiefly marked by their inspirational nature, and high humour. This collection of stories is marked more by their serious tone than by their humour. "The Visit" was in fact born while Plass was struggling with an illness in 1984. It describes a hypothetical visit of Jesus to a modern day church.

One doesn't have to read very far to discover that Plass has a unique style of prose and story-telling that is far superior to most contemporary Christian writers. It's captivating, colourful, and convincing. What's more, there's nothing "light" about these stories. Taking his cue from Christ's parables, Plass states that "a parable is a story that entertains at the front door while the truth slips through a side window." By means of his parables, Plass aims to give us more than an entertaining read, but to impart important truths about the Christian faith in the guise of fictional stories: "Each one embodies a truth about living in this complex world, and each has been a hard learned lesson for me."

However, a noble aim doesn't excuse a poor execution. Sadly, I found "The Visit" disrespectful and blasphemous, because it fails to take into account the uniqueness of Christ's earthly ministry as a once-only time of humiliation and suffering. Not only does Plass over-emphasize Christ's humanity at the expense of his divinity, but he does not do justice to the fact that Christ's mission was unrepeatable. The point of the parable is to warn against having a fictional Jesus that is different than the real one. But by creating a fictional Jesus, Plass falls into the very trap he warns against - for who is to say that Plass' Jesus is like the real one? It's shaky ground indeed.

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