Who's Your Jesus?

Do You Know Jesus? You know, Jesus, Son of God, Water Walker, Dead Raiser, Feeder of Multitudes with little more than a snack tray, Stamped Ticket to heaven? That’s right, the Sunday School Jesus. If you do, and that’s how you know Him, then praise God, don’t let anyone tell you your knowledge of Jesus is inadequate.

Every once in a while someone comes along with an epiphany and a book contract, and now we gotta deal with a whole new side of Jesus, although really, how new could it be if they’re citing scripture to support this stunning new insight into the nature of Jesus?

I suppose it’s all right, after all, do you really believe that your understanding of Jesus is THE definitive understanding of an infinite Jesus? In John 21:25 the disciple wrote “Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.” So there’s one of my favorite Jesus, the Mysterious One.

I’m also quite infatuated with the Anonymous Jesus. Remember the lame man by the pool? When he went back to his village the elders asked him “Who healed you?” and he didn’t know. It’s almost like Jesus enjoyed pranking people. BOOM, you’re healed, now you figure it out. I love that Jesus.

And how about the, I Just Showed You How, For Crying Out Loud Jesus? One day Jesus is confronted with thousands of hungry people and the disciples don’t know what to do, so Jesus grabs a kid with a snack tray consisting of a few fish and a couple of loaves of bread, has the disciples distribute it and they feed everyone and have baskets of food left over. So far so good. A while later they are facing the same scenario, thousands of hungry folks and a kid with a snack tray. What do the disciples say? How are we going to feed this crowd? They’re lucky Jesus didn’t feed THEM to the crowd. 

So anyway, that’s how my mind works. I wonder what Jesus you like……..