Reverend Ed Dobson did just that, and the retired megachurch pastor found out that living like Jesus is tough. Really tough:
The retired megachurch pastor and one-time architect of the religious right has spent the last year trying to eat, pray, talk and even vote as Jesus would. His revelation: Being Jesus is tough.
"I've concluded that I am a follower, but I'm not a very good one," Dobson said. "If you get serious about the Bible, it will really mess you up."
But a year of living like Jesus has affected Dobson in deeply spiritual and unexpected ways. He has witnessed for Jesus in bars, picked up strangers needing rides and voted for a Democrat who he believes best reflects Christ's teachings. During recent Christmas celebrations, as Christians worshipped the Christ child born in a manger, Dobson appreciated more than ever the man who preached love, only to die on a cross.
Charles Honey of the Religion News Service has more on the fascinating story: Link
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Note: A.J. Jacobs also did this and wrote a book about it: The Year of Living Biblically
For the rest of you who read this, please don’t lift up the president, lift up our Nation. Pray for revival to break out in the White House! If a Holy Ghost fire gets started in Washington DC people will come from the four corners of the earth to watch it burn. If people gather around a fire some will get burned but all will come away with the smell of smoke.