By Schubert Ogden
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Who Who is Jesus Christ?
Is Jesus the example, to follow which constitutes the right form of discipleship of Christ?
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Is he the man from Nazareth who gives out helps to live a happy life?
Or:
Is Jesus "the Lord," so that "discipleship" means believing in him?
Is his death a matter of protest and failure, or is it, rather, the act of salvation and
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fulfillment? And is the point of his death to summon others to bring his life to a better end, or is it, rather, to invite us to be crucified with him?
Is God present and alive in him, so that we stand before him as those who receive, knowing full well that we can never play God for one another?
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(after Walter Schmithals)
n.d.