Will the Real Jesus Please Please Stand Up?

"MEETING JESUS AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME" Marcus Borg
CHAPTER 6
 
Starter Questions For a Study Group

1. Share the best thing that happened to you this week.
2. Share the worst thing that happened to you this week.  
3. Share a time last week when you saw God at work in your community or in another person.   

Questions for the Passage Below

1. How much is your image of Jesus like the popular one described below?  
2. What difference does it make for you to understand the Jesus of history (the "pre-Easter" Jesus) as we now know him through recent centuries of biblical scholarship (described by Marcus Borg below)? 
3. How is your experience of the living Jesus who is present with us now effected by your portrait of the Jesus of history? 

Take Time to Pray Together and Bless One Another
    

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[The Jesus of history] is quite different from the popular image of Jesus, the Jesus many of us have met before. His own self-understanding did not include thinking and speaking of himself as the Son of God whose historical intention or purpose was to die for the sins of the world, and his message was not about believing in him. Rather, he was a spirit person, subversive sage, social prophet, and movement founder who invited his followers and hearers into a transforming relationship with the same Spirit that he himself knew, and into a community whose social vision was shaped by the core value of compassion. ~ Marcus Borg, "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time"