In 1969 David Kirk produced the book "Quotations from Chairman Jesus" (via Templegate Publishers), which became a revolutionary bestseller after its release. The book aims to show, by compiling a wide variety of Biblical and early Christian quotations, that Jesus' life and teachings, as well as early Christianity, were actually based upon a community-centered mindset. In the text, Kirk wrote, "Our present Christian community is not the church it ought to be... If this book has anything to say it is that the oppressed ought to come "first" in the Church which dares to follow Jesus Christ. If it suggests nothing more to you, let it say that money and property are meant to be common to everybody, and that he who shares power, property, and money with the poor, only returns what "rightfully" belongs to the poor."