Clairborne: Summary And Analysis

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This chapter was surprising as Shane Clairborne give us the depiction of a businessman that had a brilliant idea in all sense of the word (literally), as he made a special bracelet engraved with WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?). As the writer describes it “It was custom-made of twenty-four karat gold. Maybe each of us can relate to this man—both his earnest desire to follow Jesus and bound up in the materialism of our culture” (Clairborne 157). This could be considered ironic considering that if he is asking what would Jesus do? He could infer that one of his ideas would not be making a gold bracelet, but instead give the money spent in the bracelet to people that need clothes, food, and shelter.
In my opinion, people should ask less what would

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