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Who was Jesus?

You can get a lot of answers with that question. Matthew asked that question as well. The answers keep coming and I’m sure that most poeple have had numerous descriptions of WHO Jesus was. And, I’m sure most people have had more than one opinion as to WHO Jesus was. Theologians are still feeding us new information as to this man who changed the course of history; who hopefully has changed your life as well.

Some see Jesus just as a religious zealot who came to a very bad end. He was a kind man who had a passion for His heavenly father. As we elevate our view of Jesus, others saw Him as the ultimate sage and wisdom teacher- a man way ahead of His time. He proclaimed an unconventional wisdom that many had a hard time comprehending. He was a subversive wisdom teacher.

Of course many saw Him as simply a MAD MAN!

Then along came the church. Of course they saw Jesus as a moral and ethical teacher. The church domesticated Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. They declawed Him and took power for themselves. In so doing, the Jesus that was all powerful, the healer, the man that could tell nature what to do, now had no power. All power to the church!

The church took over the role of dictating and directing social order. Of course every church had their own ideas as to how things should be run. So we find thousands of denominations, each exercising their OPINIONS of what a Christian should be like and do. Wear dresses, not pants. Hair up and not down and long. No lipstick or makeup. No drinking, no smoking, no PG13 movies, no playing cards, and definitely NO DANCING!

And we wonder why the church isn’t growing? DUH!

The role of the church should be to give up it’s power, give it back to Jesus. The role of the church is to LOVE and not JUDGE! Priests are to lead people into the mystical and mysterious world of the Spirit. The church is to set an environment where people are free to discover the fullness of the historical person called Jesus, and then to ask the most serious of all questions.

Forget the WAS, who IS Jesus to me? TODAY!