Chapter 2 of Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll.

As I worked my way through the second chapter, “How human was Jesus?”, I found myself experiencing a déjà Vu, moment for Mark Driscoll’s sermons are very similar. He has a series that I have listened to that his book makes reference too. Although this is true I am enjoying reading this book. It does a fantastic job of balancing the deity of Christ and the manhood of Christ.

Mark, very wittingly discusses the world’s “de-manifying” (taking away the manhood) of Christ. He describes the way that writers, religious leaders and Hollywood has portrayed Jesus as a young Caucasian good-looking perfect complexion, feminine looking man that doesn’t experience any “unpleasant” human bodily functions and all that go along with them. But the very opposite is true. He was a man, a perfect God-man that felt and experienced as we do, so that he could sympathize with us. Christ didn’t learn because he didn’t know, he learned through experiences to connect with us on a intimate level.

Mark then explains the different aspects of the humanity of Christ with catchy subtitles like, “Jesus was Funny, Jesus was Passionate and Jesus was Bummed”. My favorite part about this chapter is his description of Christ’s life according to the book of Mark, here is a portion of that section just to give you a taste of his creative depiction,

“Jesus starts off by yelling at complete strangers to repent of their sin, like the wing-nuts with billboards who occasionally show up at shopping centers. Shortly thereafter, Jesus orders some guys to quit their jobs and follow him, and before long Jesus is telling a demon to shut up and healing a leper only to tell him to shut up too.”

This chapter is all about the Incarnate Christ and ends with some very poignant questions like, Did Jesus have a sin nature? Even though I have spent 4 /2 years at a bible college, I found this chapter to be very enjoyable and a great reminder of who Jesus Christ really is.

Beginnings

This is my first experience in the blogging world and although i am not sure why anyone would want to read anything i have to say, I hope that the light of my life, Jesus Christ is glorified in what i do and say...or write! So i guess I am a "blogger" now!?

In Response to my newly purchased book, Vintage Jesus, by Mark Driscoll.

I have listened to many of Mark Driscoll’s messages and they, along with this unique and raw book about the God-man, Jesus Christ are written to reach a group of people who are ready for the reality of the modern world. Some would say that it is hard to look past his brazen references to some people’s term for Jesus as being their “homeboy”, or his mention of Lennon’s comment, “We’re more popular than Jesus now”, but these and many of his inquiries of Christ are, I believe an effective way to catch the attention of the reader. It also interests them in what and who this “person” Jesus really is! Mark’s simple and creative language engages me and that is also why I like to listen to him preach, he simply loves to tell it how it is.

He continues Chapter 1 in explaining the many different view points on who Jesus is from
the “Jesus of the pop culture”, to the “Jesus of the demons”. So many people have made their claims on
the Savior so he then states that the only place to find the truth about…well THE TRUTH…..is from
the truth giver himself, Christ Jesus. The book now ensues on a lengthy but clearly and easily
understood explanation on the fact that Jesus is God. The questions posed ending the first chapter
is quite honestly, Is Jesus a Liar, Lunatic, or Lord?

I will emphatically shout HE IS LORD! As the Christian Music Artist, Twila Paris writes,

He is Lord of heaven, Lord of earth,

He is Lord of all who live,

He is Lord above the universe,

All praise to Him we give.

Hallelujah to the King of Kings,

Hallelujah to the Lamb.

Hallelujah to the Lord of Lords,

Who is the great I Am.