The Jesus Manifesto - 1st Intallment
For the next few weeks during the season of Lent, I am going to be preaching on Jesus. Shocking, right? A Christian pastor preaching on Jesus... what is the world coming to? I should be a bit more specific I suppose. The Lenten sermon series that I am working on is entitled "The Jesus Manifesto "--a title that I borrowed from Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola , who wrote a book by the same name last year. The question that this sermon series will be seeking to answer is one that was posed by Jesus himself to his disciples. Who do you say that I am? I think that the Church and the people who call themselves Christians who make up the Church have lost the plot when it comes to Jesus being the center of the Christian faith. I'm grieved to observe that the Christian Church that claims to be the hands of feet of Jesus, to be the Body of Christ, to have Jesus at it's "head," doesn't seem to be acting on behalf of the Jesus we see revealed in the Bible...