No one is objective, totally objective in their Christian paradigms. We all wear American Christian glasses which come in various shades of denominational hues and rhythms. For all Christians it should go without saying that Jesus is the decisive revelation of God, the defining revelation , though when in a world context, not the only defining entity. But, since I just said it, “Houston, we have a problem!” In other worlds, how we SEE Jesus is how we see Christianity. How we tell the story of Jesus is how we tell the story of “our Christian beliefs“.
Putting Jesus in a 2007 context means a lot of our Biblical beliefs at least or minimally need to have some “word revisions“.
Heaven is no longer “out there“. Jesus didn’t ascend “up there” somewhere. Hell isn’t located “down there“. I could go on but surely you understand that Newton and Copernicus came up with some scientific data that suggested our fore-fathers were lacking in a few foundational principles that had they known then, would have changed how they wrote.
You okay with that? 
Those WWJD bracelets aren’t a new thing. The question is one that has to be answered for each generation: that would be yours and mine as well. In fact, in 1897 Charles Sheldon wrote a book entitled, In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?
Basically our “image of Jesus” shapes our answer to that bracelet question. What we find way too often is that people don’t have a clue as to what Jesus would do but as a substitute they make statements that have to do with a Ten Commandment lifestyle, which of course isn’t what Jesus would do!
Jesus pretty much boiled it all down to just two commandments.
Or, as Marcus Borg said, “What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus. So, how well do you KNOW Jesus? BELIEFS are not the primacy basis under which we should judge a Christian, if we should be judging at all in the first place. The WAY that Jesus went and the WAY in which we FOLLOW HIM is far more important than some man-made intellectualization of what they thought 1,700 years ago.
Can you say CREEDS?
So, how you doing with Jesus TODAY! NOW?
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