Jesus—B.O.A.T. | Bartender Of All Time: The EVERYTHING Edition

What’s my purpose in life?It is the age-old question every human being is confronted to ask. The question of purpose is not only philosophical, spiritual, or religious—it is a universal human inquiry.Welcome to The EVERYTHING Edition of Jesus—B.O.A.T. Spanning 700 pages, this uncut version takes the conversations readers encountered in Jesus—B.O.A.T. The ESSENTIALS Edition (416 pages) to places religious tradition has not dared to venture. It unmasks centuries of censorship religious authorities have used to dictate how God should be experienced.Edward Oh Kim serves as CEO of Keirsey—a human behavior research company focused on human interaction, leadership, influence, and occasionally sexuality. He is publicly known as an advisor to Fortune 500 leadership teams, global governments, the U.S. military, faith-based organizations, professional sports teams, and social enterprises. So, an inquiry on Jesus was not in the strategic plan.What many don’t know is that before becoming a business leader, Edward pursued spiritual leadership. He studied philosophy, religion, psychology, and human sexuality at the University of Toronto, earned a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, and only later—after years in leadership—attended Harvard Business School, where even leadership training begins with purpose. Over the years, colleagues and publishers pressed him with a simple question: With all your training, why have you remained publicly silent about your spirituality? When publishers learned of his background, they asked something very specific:“What kind of human being was Jesus?”There are countless books on Christ’s divinity. This one begins elsewhere. Edward was asked to write about Jesus as a human being—offering reflections drawn from decades of conversations, not from bible studies, seminary classes, or sanctuaries, but from everyday humans in bars, lounges, restaurants, and cafés, where people show up less guarded and more human. That exploration became Jesus—B.O.A.T. (Bartender of All Time)—a reframing of Jesus not as an institutional figure, but as someone who entered human spaces with presence, courage, and clarity. Someone whose life-purpose can be summarized in one sentence: Jesus—the human, came to seek and to save the lost.This book does not require belief to begin reading it. You don’t have to believe in God. You don’t have to believe in the divinity of Jesus. You don’t have to change religions, adopt a worldview, or sign onto a doctrine. It simply asks you to look at one human life lived with extraordinary intention—and to consider what it reveals about purpose, meaning, and how a life is meant to be lived. Whether you’re religious, irreligious, spiritual-but-not-religious, skeptical, wounded by faith, or simply tired of fabricated versions of Jesus used to shame, control, or divide—this book is written for you. Because the Jesus many people have rejected is a Jesus the author rejects too. What remains is Jesus—the human, the kind of person all of humanity would recognize and welcome.At its core, Jesus—B.O.A.T. is not only the story of a human being named Jesus. It is a story about meaning and purpose—for all of us who are human. Pablo Picasso once said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Muhammad Ali echoed that same truth from another arena when he said, “The wise man is the one who knows his life’s purpose.” This book invites you to a compelling case study of a human being who lived their life with such clarity of purpose that it changed everything. And ultimately, it is an invitation for you to ask what it might mean for your own life. Read more