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I blogged a few days back about he gutter, well it’s partially influenced by the book I’m currently reading coincidentally titled “The Gutter” by Craig Gross.

The following exeprt got me thinking about how I see Jesus…

“I grew up in a Christian home and went to church my whole life, but that upbringing taught me about a Jesus who was with children and cute lambs. It was a Jesus who wore a long, spotless robe, gracefully walking around with a smile on his face, speaking of mysterious hope to the masses. This was the perception of Jesus I grew up with - a Jesus who stayed clean and vague and remote…”

For me this is the Jesus I was raised with. It was also a Jesus that didn’t beg me to follow him. It was one I knew, but didn’t feel compelled to be like. That changed for me. In my early twenties I began to see him more as the man he was, not the whitewashed icon from Sunday School. I began to see him a passionate man who was a force to be reckoned with. A man who scared the pants off the religious establishment. He was a dangerous man who knew me. He knew how I really retched still choose to love me. He still choose to die for me. I began to realize that is more was okay to be dangerous and godly -I was called to it.  I began to see Jesus as more of a William Wallace and less of a Mr. Rogers. Beginning to see Jesus for who he really was changed me. It gave me a savior to follow.

 So who is your Jesus? How do you see Him?

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