Do you have a 2-minute “elevator speech” ready in case anyone asks you about Jesus? Here is one that the Rev. Marcus Borg posted. As he stressed in his post, this isn’t THE #ElevatorSpeech, just his. Each of us as followers of the way should be ready to tell someone about our savior. Here is Borg’s try at describing #Jesus. Jesus was a peasant, which tells us about his social class. Clearly, he was brilliant. His use of language was remarkable and poetic, filled with images and stories. He had a metaphoric mind. He was not an ascetic, but world-affirming, with a zest for life. There was a sociopolitical passion to him – like a #Gandhi or a #MartinLutherKing, he challenged the domination system of his day. He was a religious ecstatic, a Jewish mystic, for whom God was an experiential reality. As such, Jesus was also a healer. And there seems to have been a spiritual presence around him, like that reported of #StFrancis or the #DalaiLama. And I suggest that, as a figure of history, Jesus was an ambiguous figure – you could experience him and conclude that he was insane, as some of his family did; or that he was simply eccentric or that he was a dangerous threat; or that he was filled with the Spirit of #God. You can read more at patheos/blogs/marcusborg/2014/10/what-would-it-have-been-like-to-be-a-companion-of-jesus/
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:00:01 +0000
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