LONGWOOD, FL-Poor self-image. It can take us down a spiraling path of despair and personal destruction. Criminals and the like are on a road that can only lead straight down to that most unmentionable of places-hell, itself. Can getting an identity "makeover" radically transform one's entire self-perception? Would they really change enough to get into heaven? Consider the homeless person, already living in their own version of hell. For the last 27 years, Dr. John M. Saba Jr. and his wife have been physically feeding and clothing the homeless, the "rejected" in the city of Detroit. As they minister to street people they teach them about identity-not that they are a prostitute or someone who spent time in jail, but the identity of who they really are in Christ. Dr. Saba believes we are all created according to an ancient pattern of God and illustrates these ideas in You Are the Tabernacle of God. "We need to give people something to help them change on the inside," says Saba. "People have a responsibility for their own physical bodies and need to know they are created in the image of God, as shown in the tabernacle of Moses." He has shared this message with folks of all ages and educational backgrounds and explains that "once this truth is realized or internalized, those who have learned it will show a greater respect to their own bodies, and to others as well."
Drawing from ancient Judaism, the Apocrypha, Sophism, the mystery systems, and technologies such as acoustics, chemistry, genetics, and mathematics, Dr. Saba has created a series of carefully researched meditations on divinity and the body. While still in medical school, the author became disillusioned with the medical profession's focus on illness and decided to study ways to heal the body rather than profit from illness. Believing God had a higher plan, he dropped out of medical school and turned his attention toward studying the body and nutrition. Using his medical training and technologies such as sound, genetics, chemistry, and mathematics, he created a study series on divinity and the human body. In Identity, You Are the Tabernacle of God (November, $12.99, 1-59781-443-1) Dr. Saba uses the reconstructed articles of the tabernacle of Moses as the model for our tabernacle-designed physical bodies. In the book, he examines biblical quotes, gives an overview of the Holy Land, and offers formulas to decode geometric symbolism in the architecture of the ancient Hebrew Tabernacle, comparing it to the architecture of the bodyÕs skeletal, circulatory, digestive, and reproductive systems. Dr. Saba hopes readers will discover that we are all children of God and a "Tabernacle" in which God dwells.
Dr. John M. Saba Jr. was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Wilkes University in 1959 after many scholarships, honors, and awards. He attended Hahnemann Medical College for one year and later established a nutritional supplement company called Basic Nutrition, with his friend Steve Cutler.
Ordained into the ministry in 1980, Dr. Saba's current ministerial activities in the Detroit area include working with Frank Krajenke, regional director of the 700 Club; conducting outreaches that feed, clothe, and biblically teach the city's less fortunate; and appearing on radio and television shows with the message of his book. John and Jeanine Saba are members of Cornerstone Metro Church in Wayne, Michigan. They have been married forty-two years and have three children and six grandchildren. Dr. Saba travels extensively teaching about "identity." Speaking engagements for churches, seminars, or classroom studies can be arranged by calling 1-888-525-6348. Dr. SabaÕs website, www.johnsaba.org , is nearing final construction.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Identity through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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