Reflection Paper On Jesus

Today, as I attend school with the major heading as “Missions,” I hear a lot of talk about different methods in creating disciples. However, “Paul’s modus operandi for training was time on task” (pp. 59). In other words, disciples were made through time spent rather than strictly content. It sounds like relationship was a key aspect. Paul also focused on transferring these converts into true believers. It seems a lot in churches today, individuals are more focused on content rather than time. Therefore, they spend more time in the church “learning” than spending time with those that need “discipled.” With that, people in the church tend to “convert” others or brag about increased attendance, but have no plan to turn these individuals into true believers.

John nine verses one through seven is the being of the grace giving and truth telling of Jesus in this section. When Jesus spoke with the man that was blind I believe he ministered to him and gave him a brief explanation of who he was. The disciples asked him if this man sinned from birth or did his parents sin? Jesus used the truth telling when he answered the disciples by saying this man didn't sin at birth and neither has his parents sinned. It also gives truth-telling by letting the disciples know that it was to give God the glory. Now for the grace-giving part of Jesus, is him giving the Blind man back his sight. The reason why this was grace-giving was because this man had been blind his whole life, but when he came in contact with Jesus, he showed him grace by healing him.

Did you know that Jesus was hiding inside of that Ram when Abraham slaughtered it on the alter? God Himself had prepared this supplying and it materialized at the specific second it was essential. What took place in this trade is that God obligated Himself to perform what He had promised by way of the obedience of a gentleman. From this level on Jesus in human form is essential to carry forth the deliverance of our species from mortality. PS, He obtained the task carried out. This brings us to the on earth ministry of Jesus in human type.

Throughout Jesus’ time here on Earth, he changed many peoples’ lives. For example, he would heal the sick everywhere he went, as well as preaching to thousands of people about God and His Salvation. The Pharisees, a group of legalistic people, were trying very hard to convict Jesus of a crime, because they did not like how he would “rewrite” the laws of the city in order to help people in need of a savior. In fact, there are three distinct times in Matthew 1-14, where Jesus “rewrites” the Jewish law in order to continue ministering to thousands, if not millions, of people.

friends. Their speaking in foreign tongues became their badge of honor. Competitiveness emerged to see who was more orthodox and more gentle and humble. All their time was devoted to performing good deeds as hurriedly as possible, not wanting their consecration to be challenged. One easy method to prove their devotion was to discover those in hiding without the mark and reveal them to the police. Everyone believed it a duty to report to authorities anyone not giving their loyalty to sweet Jesus. When such sinful people refused to repent, and were publicly executed, Christians of the world shook their heads in disbelief. They could not imagine the extent of the depth of a fallen nature capable of blinding people to such ruin.

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Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most influential historical figure that we are aware of today. In 2013, Christianity made up 31.50% of the earth’s population. Today, Christianity is the largest religion of the world and one of the fastest growing religions through conversion. At the core of Christianity are the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Jesus of Nazareth was born ca. 6 B.C.E. In his short time on earth, he gained 12 disciples. Jesus was called the Messiah (the anointed one) and the Roman authorities didn’t agree. Jesus was taken to the governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate. He was sentenced to crucifixion by Pontius when he was in his early to mid-thirties.

Before God created people, it was just God and the earth. There was not any living forms, until God wanted to create life, so he could share a relationship with us. God then created Adam and Eve, the true depiction of Himself. God told them not to eat from an apple tree, Eve gave into sin and ate an apple from the tree. That was the first time someone sinned in the world, and it was then that God knew that He had to send a Messiah to earth to die for our sins. That Messiah was Jesus, he came to earth to die for our sins and show people the human form of God. “God is mighty, but despises no one; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.” (Job 35:6) Jesus is firm in his purpose to

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord" (Colossians 3:16). God’s word should dwell in us to provide wisdom as the preceding scripture infers. We must be able to teach the word in season and out of season (2nd Tim. 42) to warn others of the things that may lead them down a path of destruction for their lives.

What have I learned is a great question to answer, beginning with the importance of community. The importance is realizing we are all part of a community, whether, social, small groups of church leadership or business. What I have learned through the importance of community in teaching others is, our service is to God and others should have intended purpose and a positive impact. Likewise, we should value every opportunity given to be a true disciple of Christ. Although, there are many who are at first willing to follow Jesus, but who do not realize that it means walking on the “narrow road” (Matthew 7:14). Nevertheless, the person who follows Jesus must be ready to deny himself. He must also count the cost of being a disciple of Jesus. To be a disciple one must willing to make sacrifices (Luke 14:33). For example, Matthew 8:18-22 records the cost of following Jesus. The disciples one after another found themselves with many excuses or explanation to renege on their commitment to Jesus. Jesus understood to a certain degree, nonetheless, when we cannot do both, we must put Jesus above everything else. Again, Paul records in Luke 9:61-62 exacting discipleship where Jesus

In this section we will explore the different proposals to the issue of the humanity and divinity of Jesus (the horizontal axis), which was later classified as heresies, and the orthodox positions defined by the Council of Nicea convened to settle this issue (refer to Lesson 5 for discussion on Docetism).

Sean, I too am learning how Jesus has been in my life pushing myself to become a better person. You are completely right when you describe Jesus knowing the perfect things to say and do to allow an individual to truly look introspectively, so they can grow to become a better Christion. I have always held the belief that who can be a better doctor for my shortcomings that Jesus who is my creator. Even the bible states that He knew me even before I was in my mother’s womb. This also describes how Jesus is truly able to guide us and lead us down the path of redemption and righteousness. I love how you state “I can see how the Holy Spirit works in someone’s heart because I’ve seen it firsthand.” I to have seen this in during my time in the course.

When Jesus is preaching He always says “Come, walk with me”. For us, it is sure that Jesus is with us in our everyday lives. We are sure of this because of our faith to Him. Therefore Jesus wants us to realize that if we follow him with all our hearts we are sure that we are in his protection but if you are away from Him, He is still with you that is because sometimes if we are making sins we come to realize the things that we’ve done wrong.

I would say the specific historical event that made John write his book would be the crucifixion of Jesus. I suppose you could say that was the event that caused all of the disciples to write their books. Although John didn’t write his book for a decent amount of time after Jesus’s death, his whole book was dedicated to sharing what he witnessed during his walk with Jesus as well as the story.