Raised in a Christian home, the author of The Jesus Creed accepted Christ at age 6, but in his teen years, he began to grapple in a deeper way with what it actually meant to be a believer.

"I moved from understanding a Christian as someone who accepts Christ into their heart to someone who surrenders themselves to Christ in trust and obedience, so that a Christian, for me, is not someone simply who has accepted Christ but someone who, as the result of accepting Christ, follows Christ," he said.

In his release from Zondervan next month, McKnight examines what it means to be a follower of Jesus in a multitude of ways, offering up topics from justice to sex to vocation to eternity.

"I want to sketch what the Christian life looks like if we ask Jesus to define those terms and to set the parameters—and Jesus was all into (the) kingdom of God, and He wanted people to be caught up in the vision of what God is doing in this world," he said.

Read more in the December issue of Christian Retailing.

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