How Many Jesuses Do You Know?

As has been the topic of many chapters in McLaren's A Generous Orthodxy, there are many distortions of the true, whole, historic and real Jesus as well as His Message. McLaren details the various facets that people focus on with their Jesus. This is helpful to understand how people of diverse faith understand Jesus and the message that he brought 2000 years ago. What we really are after though is a realization of the true historic Jesus, the message that he brought 2000 years ago and how the listeners would have heard it then. That must be the primary goal…

February 15, 2006  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)

Parable: A Man Without a Country

There was a man who moved away from his home country. He had mild concerns about the country where he had lived since his childhood but left them largely unspoken as he moved away to explore the rest of the world. As he moved away and settled into a new hometown in a new country he was exposed to new ideas. Left and right he saw people that were different from him. Some of the things disgusted him, others enlightened him and others were attracting to him. In this new environment he met new people, made some friends and, inevitably…

January 24, 2006  |  Permalink   |  Comments (2)   |  TrackBack (0)