I would like to make the claim that the Jesus that is presented this weekend in some (I am grieved to think that perhaps I should say “many”) of our Things do not get any better when Paul takes the message of the cross to the rest of the Roman world. Among everyone else in the Roman world, the message of the cross was “foolishness” (1 Cor 1:18, 21, 23). After all, Paul was preaching about a Jewish man who died by crucifixion a death that was reserved for the worst offenders.In other words, the Christians were preaching that their Lord was some outcast from Galilee who died the most despicable form of death at the hands of Rome. If we are keeping score it is Rome 1 Jesus 0.
As for Gen X, we get it: you effortlessly straddle the gap between digital natives and “the olds,” and you know how to do everything perfectly. Good for you.
A Christian worldview indeed begins, as it is often stated, with Creation and it ends with New Creation. In the middle is the “failure” of humanity (see The fact is that your kids, neighbors, co-workers, friends, and Aunt Martha are far more likely to come to faith in Christ because:They respect you. They admire you. They envy you. They see Jesus working in your life and they want to know more. This means that instead of putting pressure and stress on our pastors and the staff, perhaps we should look at ourselves first.
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