In Search of the Real Jesus

Will the real Jesus, please stand up? If the culture's discussions about Jesus are any indication, he is really popular today. That does not mean those discussions have any accuracy. In fact more discussions by those who are unconnected to him or poorly informed about him probably mean more confusion about Jesus. And the God they know through this process is not the One that makes them in His image but one that they make in theirs. As one can personalize their Scion today, so too you can your God!

And even those who are connected to him and supposedly informed about him often believe in a Seinfeld-esque Bizarro Jesus that unfortunately leads to Bizarro Christianity. (Ask someone who knows Seinfeld) "Their" Jesus is only a shadow of the true Christ. And many whose understanding of Jesus is accurate may not have really learned anything new or meaningful in a long time. The problem with that is passionlessness. Nothing new means everything old--old and stale. Somewhere along the line they stopped digging, busy with so many other things I guess. And the Jesus they show the world is cold, formal, and institutionalized.

I don't know what is worse...the uninformed making the Jesus they want, the poorly informed and their Bizarro Christ, or the not recently informed and their passionless Christ. All of it makes the job of spreading the good news in this era maybe more challenging than winning Martians who have never heard of him. (I don't know if there are any but if so, we need to win them to Jesus too.

So who is this man? And what does understanding him mean for us wherever we may be in our spiritual journey. That is the point of this new series as we lead up to Easter, Who Is This Man? I hope the uninformed come to know him, the poorly informed will know him more completely, and the not recently informed will get a new fire for him. Don't miss this new series beginning this Sunday!