Good News: Jesus Does Not Want to Make a Difference in Your Life! Jesus does not want to make a difference in your life. I’m not kidding! In all seriousness, Jesus does not want to make a difference in your life. Or mine. Or anyone else’s. Can you believe that? If so you understand the gospel. If not, well, this sermon’s especially for you! If you think or want Jesus to make a difference in your life your gospel is too small! It may be conservative/traditional or progressive/liberal or somewhere in between, but it is not the Bible’s good news. Such a gospel remains wedded to a fundamentally inadequate view of Jesus. What do I mean by that? Just this. A Jesus who only makes a difference in human lives is either a gnostic redeemer figure (for conservative versions) or a figure whose noble life and death inspires in or models for us the way life should be lived (for progressive/liberal versions). Either way, Jesus adjusts, tweaks, recalibrates, or even radically reorients the...
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