The Gospel of Jesus

I've just started reading a new book The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of the Original Good News by James M. Robinson, the general editor of The Nag Hammmadi Library in English. I am very struck by one of his paragraphs in the Introduction:

"Jesus came to grips with the basic intentions of people. He addressed them personally, as to what kind of people they were. He called on them--he did not just teach them ideas. When we take his sayings and distill from them our doctrines, what we have really done is manipulate his sayings for our own purposes, first of all, for the purpose of avoiding his personal address to us. Without realizing it, we reclassify his sayings as objective teachings to which we can give intellectual assent, rather than letting them strike home as the personal challenge he intended them to be. The issue is not what we think about them, but rather what we do about them" (xiv).

This looks like a provocative book!