Who is Jesus?

Since sacred space is a conversation exploring life in the way of Jesus, it might be a good question to ask, "who do we think Jesus is?" or perhaps, "what are our thoughts about Jesus?"

This was a question Jesus asked those who hung out with him as well. As he spent time with blue collar types and people on the edge of society, he asked the twelve who were closest to him, "Who do people say that I am?" I think this question caught them off guard a bit and after they had a moment to think about it they began repeating to him what others were saying about him. As one of Jesus' followers, Matthew -- who happened to be an ex-tax collector, remarked that some said he was the prophet John the Baptist (who was in reality Jesus' cousin who told the people about Jesus' coming -- some people must have figured he wasn't executed after all); some said he was one of the prophets who had wandered the earth hundreds of years before, but somehow appeared again (maybe like a ghost).

But then Jesus asked them, like he still asks each one of us, "Who do you say I am?" That is a question we all have to figure out. For Peter, one of Jesus' followers, he said, "You are the One who has come to liberate humanity, the Son of the living God."

What this means and what implications this has for our exploring together life in the way of Jesus is something we can talk about this coming Saturday, March 17th.

See you there.
Roland