From The Christian Post-
With all its chasing after recognition, material goods and even holiness and spirituality, the world is often a tiring place. The good news is that Jesus has come to set people free from those things, Regent College Professor Rikk Watts highlighted Friday at a lecture.
Jesus, God incarnate, was Himself often mistaken by people during His earthly years. Those closest to Him thought of Him as a megalomaniac. Sadly this picture is still being perpetuated today largely through the ignorance of many Christians.
“We think we know what God is like,” said Watts. However, for many, much of that picture is inspired by authority figures like the father and the employer who often impose their authority on others.
Moreover, looking at selfish Christians, a watching world is led into thinking that God is concerned only about Himself, he added.
That, however, is not an accurate picture of God. God’s character and behaviour are essentially different from most of what is seen in the world and in history. Glory for God is being nailed to a cross and left to die a cruel death, the theologian expressed in a three-part series on the heart of discipleship. The core of discipleship, he suggested, is bearing the cross like Jesus did to redeem a sinful world.
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