Is Your Jesus Real?
This is Jesus speaking and it goes against the impotent Jesus one sees plastered on the sides of buses or adorning internet art. It also goes against the Jesus that is often preached from pulpits all across our country. The Jesus the world wants is a liberal Jesus: a Jesus of convenience and a Jesus who isn't dangerous: a Savior, but not a Judge - a Sacrifice, but not a Sovereign. The worlds wants a Jesus that endorses and empowers their own hopes and dreams, but that makes no demands other than acceptance of a few facts that is called the Gospel. This is not however the person that Jesus was and is, and it certainly isn't the message He gives about Himself: ----- Matthew 10:32-39 (NIV) 32 "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. 34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not c