Jason Porterfield's Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace throughout Holy Week focuses on peace issues of Holy Week in a way that most books about that highly significant week do not. He takes the lament of Jesus, recorded in Luke 19.41-44 as "the interpretative key to Holy Week" (page 21). Thus, Porterfield asserts, "We desperately need to recover the radical vision of peacemaking that Jesus embodied throughout Holy Week" (page 23).
In chapters two through seven, Porterfield describes what happened on each day from Palm Sunday to Good Friday and also lists "lessons in peacemaking" from Jesus' actions and words on each of those days.
The final chapter deals with Saturday and Easter Sunday under the title "Peace Be with You". Porterfield concludes the chapter, and the book, by addressing his readers directly. He encourages us to consider how we may implement any insight we've gained through reading Fight Like Jesus. Since these pages have introduced us to Jesus' path to making peace, we're left with one question that remains to be answered, "What will you do with this knowledge?" (page 179).
This is a wonderful little book, that makes a powerfully engaging book for church study groups, particularly during Lent. I cannot recommend it more strongly.
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I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review here.