I don’t think Jesus is complementarian or egalitarian.
I don’t think Jesus looks like a white Dutchman.
I don’t think Jesus speaks Aramaic or English or Swahili.
I don’t think Jesus is Baptist or Pentecostal or 1st Church of the Thingumybob Reformed Thrice Over.
I don’t think Jesus thinks rules fix stuff.
I think He is Bigger and Narrower than any or all of the ways we divide and label ourselves and then by reflection – Him (the glass-darkly images declaring the Actual like themselves)
I think He’s worth getting to know.
I think He’s worth peeling back
– our religious ideas about…
– our cultural ideas about…
– our sub-cultured ideas about…
– our preferences about…
– our assumptions about…
– our “Jesus agrees with me therefore“ rubber stamps about…
– all the stuff that’s added by the reasoning and rationalising from the “Tree of Not-Life” but it sounds good so let’s roll with it.
Getting to know Him is a scary, wonderful, surprising, out of the box, knock your socks and religious packages right off – epic journey.
Let’s read and run to know Him, not assume Him.
He Is Who He Is.
He is not an indefinable “everything-therefore-nothing” from whom we can make up our own ideas.
He Is Who He Is.
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This has been a ‘what’s she on about now?’ post – brought to you in angry response to how religion presents Jesus, Who, may be both kinder and scarier than all the above depending on where you sit.