Christmas Season and Deeper Thoughts about Jesus, Part One
Pastor Brad Abley: Biblical Educator
Pastor’s Corner - Jesus of Nazareth Part 1
"It would be difficult to think of a single person who has affected human history more profoundly than Jesus of Nazareth. This alone would make the study of him significant. Yet this is not the primary reason he is studied. He is not studied as Alexander and Napoleon would be studied, for their enormous power or political sway over millions.
"His influence is not outwardly measured in terms of worldly power (John 18:36) but remains uncoercive, person-to-person, spiritual, subtly transforming, inconspicuous.
"The closer we make him the object of our study, the more we become aware that he is examining us.
"How is it plausible that two thousand years ago there lived a man born in poverty in a remote corner of the world, whose life was abruptly cut short in his early thirties, who traveled only in a small area, who held no public office, yet whose influence appears greater than all others?
"How is it that one who died the death of a criminal could be worshiped today by hundreds of millions?"[1]
[1] Thomas C. Oden, The Word of Life, Systematic Theology: Volume Two (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987), 3-7.
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