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I actually think there are
there are many and multifaceted misconceptions about Jesus.
Frankly, many Christians get Jesus wrong.
We have so
mystified Jesus that we forget that he was a man.
We have dehumanized him
in some sense, forgetting that
that he wept, that he got tired,
that he got stressed out by the large crowds
and needed a break from people, that he was hurt
when his friend was murdered, and
so I think a lot of times
Christians get Jesus wrong and so we can't live like him and we can't
accurately portray him. On the other side, I
think that
Jesus is sometimes over
humanized, that he was considered just a prophet,
just a guru, just a - just a good man. But Jesus
didn't give us any of those things. Jesus was very clear, very explicit in multiple
places
that though he was man, he was still God.
And I think that's an incredible misconception,
and so I think there are so many
different pictures of who Jesus is
that we lose sight of
the man and at the same time lose sight of the fact that he was God.
If we dehumanize him,
we miss his relatability, we miss his intimacy, we miss his closeness.
But if we don't see him as deity,
see him as transcendent,
see him as the very presence
and power and person of God
here on the planet, then we lose all the promises
of rescue because he was pretty clear on why he was here -
it was to share the good news that God had not forgotten about the world,
and he was so utterly and thoroughly concerned with it
that he was willing to sacrifice himself to save it.