Have you met the “New Jesus”? 

Would the post-Christian “woke” world of “what I think” consider someone a Christian who...  

• refused to feed hungry people because they rejected the real purpose of His mission (John 6)

• declared absolutely that there was no other way to God but His way (John 14)

• chose 12 apostles all from the same race and gender (Luke 6)

• called a woman a sinner who had been caught in adultery and refused to accept her behavior (John 8)         

• accepted an expensive gift that could have been sold and the money given to the poor (Mark 14)

• brought up a woman’s past five failed marriages while she was trying to give him a drink of water (John 4)

• ignored a man dying on a cross who was begging Jesus to save Him (Luke 23)

All of such are ideas that many consider un-Christian in the modern world.  But no worries since we seem to have created our own “Jesus”.  I like to call the new one, "Facebook Jesus", since he is the product of media where we get to speak and He doesn’t.  Places that canonize “what I think” as sacrosanct, and makes Jesus tons more culturally sensitivity than when He used to pipe off about how most people are going to die and go to hell (Matt 7:13-14).  Who needs to hear that... right? 

Remember the dark ages of being micro-aggressively moored to absolute truth concerning marriage, sexuality, under the thumb of a Jesus to whom our soul was more important than our self?  Remember when we were like so concerned with what He thought of us.  We were just too afraid to give Him a much needed less-repressive make over so that we could finally just be ourselves? 

Regrettably, we have forgotten that Christ’s message is not offered in a software package, which requires constant updating in order to meet the demands of its users.  He never asked for feedback or provided a means for reporting errors. 

Fortunately, He offers us an opportunity not to be ourselves... lost sinners, who need a Savior. He does not need a makeover or an update.  But... neither do we.  Actually, we need for Him to recreate us completely.  So, when we get to the end of being ourselves, life without a compass, and demanding the right to be empty and shallow... remember there is hope.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come (NASB).

 Pastor Mike