Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Simply Jesus

Chapter 1 - A Very Odd Sort of King

1.  Describe what your life was like at the time "Jesus Christ Superstar" came out.  Did you see it?  If so, how did it affect you and others?  What the public reaction where you lived?

2.  Wright describes his early confrontation with the gospels' accounts of Jesus as he prepared to preach and teach.  He asked himself, "Did he really say that?  Did he really do that?  What did it mean?"  What types of questions, similar of different, emerge for you as you read and hear the gospels of Jesus?

3.  "Jesus - the Jesus we might discover if we really looked! - is larger, more disturbing, more urgent than we - than the church! - had ever imagined!"  How did you and we arrive at our various expectations of this king Jesus?  How are they under-realized and under-utilized at Christians?

4.  Then, as now, Jesus comes into our lives with an agenda that surprises, shocks, and disappoints many...even us!  We want much from this king...but seldom pause to examine our deeper motives and goals.  Should we be surprised that this king has a different agenda than ours?  How, then, do we best learn, understand, embrace, and live out this agenda?

5.  Finally, what are the two or three major questions of Jesus' life you bring to this group examination?  How important is it for you to frame the proper questions (often complex and ongoing) rather than seek quick answers (often simple and unsatisfying)?  What type of balance do you seek?

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