I am finding this term’s ABC classes to be an incredible joy with nearly 65 Park people participating as we probe the depths of the incomparable Christ.  I have also been challenged personally with the fact that I am too often content with a very shallow Jesus.  John Stott in his wonderful book The Incomparable Christ uncovers again the Christian tendency to view Jesus through lenses of our own making.  We too often see a Jesus we want to see:  a liberal Jesus or a conservative Jesus; a mystical Jesus or a revolutionary Jesus; a nice-guy Jesus or an angry Jesus; a too-human Jesus or a too-divine Jesus; a capitalist Jesus or a Marxist Jesus; a therapist Jesus or paradigm of human virtue Jesus; a Jesus who is too much servant and not enough King or a Jesus who is too much King and not enough servant.

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