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The larger question that this raises is how it is possible, if at all, to talk about my having personal relations with Jesus and his having them with me; so that I can do things to and for him, even as he can do things to and for me. The clue to answering this question seems to me to be given in what Bultmann says about how we are to interpret Paul's talk about the "obedience" and the "love" of Christ – -- namely, by taking Christ's "obedience" to be the fact of his historical person in its service to us, and his "love" as God's saving act through him.

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