Getting to Know Jesus
Like Duolingo, but for Getting to Know Jesus. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Way He Treated People, His Most Famous Lessons, and The Man and His World. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Getting to Know Jesus
- Jewish and Samaritan cultures were historically hostile and avoided interaction
- Lepers were considered 'unclean' and were physically shunned by society
- Religious leaders in that era typically avoided public conversation with unrelated women
- Tax collectors were viewed as traitors and social pariahs
- How Jesus's actions directly subverted specific social taboos of his era
- The relationship between an outcast's social label and Jesus's response of dignity
- Jesus prioritized the needs and worth of the individual over rigid social hierarchies
- Jesus often risked his own reputation to associate with those the religious elite rejected
- Limited forgiveness eventually justifies a return to resentment or revenge
- Unlimited forgiveness is required to permanently break the cycle of debt and retaliation
- Forgiveness releases the victim from the burden of bitterness
- Choosing to forgive is an act of personal liberation from the past
- The purpose of unlimited forgiveness in breaking the cycle of retaliation
- The internal effect of forgiveness on the person who was wronged
- Forgiveness begins with acknowledging a real wrong was done
- The goal of forgiveness is the restoration of relationship rather than just ignoring the conflict
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Getting to Know Jesus the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why did people in the ancient world typically keep a physical distance from lepers?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Getting to Know Jesus takes you
Discover the man who changed the world through the lens of radical kindness and boundary-breaking love. Explore his most famous stories and why his message still resonates with billions today.
- 1
The Way He Treated People
- Kindness to the Outsiders
- The Power of Forgiveness
- Standing Up for the Little Guy
- How He Redefined Love
- 2
His Most Famous Lessons
- Stories with a Twist
- The Sermon on the Mount
- Walking the Talk
- Simple Words, Big Ideas
- Challenging the Status Quo
- The Meaning of the Golden Rule
- 3
The Man and His World
- Life in Ancient Galilee
- The Final Days in Jerusalem
- How His Message Spread
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Getting to Know Jesus is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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