Evangelicals: Stop Saying You See People Like Jesus Does

found online by Raymond

 
From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

Most Evangelicals have a two-sided understanding of Jesus. There is the theological Jesus and the human Jesus. The theological Jesus is found on Sundays and in countless Christian books. While this Jesus often becomes the framework by which Evangelicals view the world, most often it is the human Jesus that determines attitudes and conduct. Let me explain this in the context of a statement often made by Evangelicals: dear Jesus, please help me see others as you do.

From a theological perspective, how does Jesus see others? Can we even answer this question? When it comes to theology, Jesus had very little to say. It is the Christian church, with its 2,000 year history, that has given us the theological Jesus. So perhaps the real question is how does the Arminian or Calvinistic Jesus see people?

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