Review: No Easy Jesus: How the Toughest Choices Lead to the Greatest Life Jason Mitchell Tyndale 2017 Mitchell approaches one of the saddest parts of church life---boredom, disappointment, disillusionment and although he doesn’t use the word, dechurching. He traces this situation that describes many more than will admit it aloud to accepting a belief in Jesus that had no relationship with life. The here and now stuff we experience every day. He says of his own life that he realized he had “settled for an ‘easy Jesus’…. a Jesus who didn’t ask to much of me…the promise of eternal life in heaven but conveniently left me alone in this life.” (23-24). After struggling with that revelation, he concluded that, “Yes, we need to believe in order to have faith. But at some point our faith in Jesus must blossom into faithfulness to Jesus if we are interested in growing as followers of Jesus.” (25) There’s the premise of t...