As a book reviewer for Thomas Nelson Publishing, I always look forward to receiving another free book in the mail.   As I started reading JESUS MANIFESTO by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola, I was disappointed by the beginning chapters.  I had heard it all before and wasn’t learning anything new.   But about midway through the book, the words began to come alive with one fresh insight after another.  It might sound obvious to state that the focal point of Christianity is Jesus Christ.  However, many have twisted the gospel to make it about anything but Christianity.  On page 100 Sweet and Viola write, “We have created a narcissistic form of Christianity, in which conversion is less a turning towards Christ than turning toward success or fame or fortune. … We’ve made conversion primarily about ourselves­­, a finding of ourselves rather than a journey of God discovery.”  Or, on page 105, “Jesus Christ did not come to make bad people good, he came to make dead people alive.”