Reflection Paper On Jesus

The religious leaders heard Jesus’ message but they rejected it. Jesus used agricultural images to portray the unfruitfulness of these religous leaders and their rejection of Jesus. They were unfruitful as outlined in the three situations. They should respond to the message and persevere the word and to bear fruit.

On September 8, 2015, I have decided to interview my cousin Sally Chia about her relationship with Jesus. My cousin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is 28 years old. She currently lives in Las Vegas and works as a pharmacist. I chose to interview her because I figured she had a close relationship with Jesus. This is because when I was growing up she was the one who taught me about Jesus and his teachings. I have known my cousin Sally all my life, which is for about 14 years. During the interview I asked questions about her own personal relationship with God, and she answered my questions with great answers.

Women played a most important role in early Christianity Women’s interaction with Jesus is very crucial roles within the life and teachings of Jesus. The resurrection of two people are restored to women, Nain to his unnamed mother (Luke 7:11-17), and Lazarus to Mary and Martha (John 11:1-44). Women attend to Jesus at the cross and are the first to see the resurrection of Jesus. More specifically Jesus infers there should be no hierarchy in Christian relationships (Matthew 20:25-26). Women also played a considerable role in the formation of the church. Many early churches were home churches and the environment was provided by the women. For example, Martha becomes a church leader by offering her house as a home church and by assisting in

In practical terms Jesus is the son of God and the man form of the Holy Spirit. He is the savior for the world. He is the man that died for the world’s sins and then rose again after his death to live an eternal life. Jesus is known by many to have the most upstanding moral values and many people base their own values and morals off of his. He always acts with kindness and wisdom, and is always willing to forgive and help sinners. He is known for healing the sick and disabled. He values helping children and giving back to the less fortunate. His miracles helped feed thousands of people who would have gone hungry.

Paul is speaking of worldly Christians that are not following the Word of God, but following after Satanic ways. In today's world, we have many that profess Christ, yet they are living a materialistic life, seeking their own will instead of God's will, that are playing church and going through a pretense of a Godly way of life, that are kissing the devil, while saying I love you to Christ. That seems to be the case here. (12)

The first answer is seen in scripture itself in a command Jesus gives in Mathew 22:37-38 “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ‘This is the first and greatest commandment’. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (NIV). It appears that from this statement that Jesus is telling His followers that the most important rule is to love one another. While this is the standard, Carson points out the difficulty of executing this principle “It is one thing to be able to care for someone who has the same motivations and interests as ourselves, but how are we to love those who wish us harm” (2014, p 63)? The remedy for this is including the second component into the interpretation, which is wisdom. Wisdom allows humans to discern and glean what is truth or fallacy as they walk out their daily lives. Carson gives the portrayal of what this picture looks like “Thus, our understanding of Christian discipleship, and indeed of Scripture, should be based on a dynamic relationship with Christ, through the Holy Spirit” (2014: p 70). Through Christ as an example of love and the wisdom provided by the Holy Spirit, one can lead a Godly life by pursuing these

Jesus Christ struggled to change the hearts of others, through those challenges our savior impacted many human lives with His love, grace, and mercy. Jesus is a central figure in Christianity and is emulated as the incarnation of God by many Christians all over the word. However, through his fight there were advances and setbacks, Jesus overcame theses struggles with his strong faith and with the word of God. “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty on who will save” and “He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with his love; He will exult over you with loud signing” (Zeph 3:17).

A disciple of Jesus, Peter was quick to act or react impulsively. The first example is in Mathew 14, which describes the story of Jesus walking on water. After seeing Jesus walking on water, Peter, who was in a boat with other disciples, asked Jesus if he could walk on water. Jesus replied, “Yes, come” (Mathew 14:29 NLT) and Peter exited the boat and began walking on water. However, when the wind and waves grew stronger, Peter began to doubt, started to sink, and he cried out for Jesus to save him (Mathew 14:30 NLT). The implication of this story suggests that failing to understand research concepts can lead to doubt. Furthermore, the researcher must trust the data and, without reservation, provide actionable conclusions or recommendations

The people told Jesus to perform a miracle if He wanted them to believe. They told Him that Moses gave the Israelites manna to eat, saying “The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

I believe that within the Gospels in the Bible we are able to find a deeper understanding of God’s unbelievable love for us as it discloses God’s true purpose for Jesus’ life, which is so much more than just showing us how to be good people. Jesus came to strengthen his understanding. Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz said I Knowing the Bible 101: A Guide to God’s Word in Plain Language that “As a man, Christ knew the struggles that we face in our daily lives. He was not immune to temptation, pain, and sorrow.” (p. 220) This was so that God could carry out his plan to save us, which Bickle and Jantz described like this ““Luke includes this quote of Jesus, which gives the best statement of His purpose: And I, the Son of Man, have come to seek and save those like him who are lost. (Luke 19:10).” (p. 221)

Now that the new message for the world is here many Christians will ask themselves that very same question, “What about Jesus?” No one saw this coming. Caught by surprise and stunned, they are perplexed and feel naïve as they are amazed by the preeminence

St Luke’s Gospel message teaching is very clear as it shows Jesus is compassionate and charitable to others in need. People in social justice issues need to be considered and cared about as what Jesus would do.

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.

Everybody likes Jesus. Well that is something I have not heard. The title of Chapter one made me ponder before even reading it. Does everyone like Jesus? In my life I do not take it as everyone likes Jesus, not everyone knows who Jesus even is. Jesus is in other religions, which the believers of those religions may like Jesus, but they like him in a different way than we as Christians do. Strauss begins talking about other religions and how they love Jesus, but as he puts it they love Jesus the way they chose to make him out to be (10).

I believe most sections of Christianity will agree with the idea that Christ is in us. He is in the world, living actively through His earthly body; the Church. So why wouldn’t we do the same things He did? Christ expressed this way of thinking to us over and over in scripture. Jesus, the light, said to us that we would do greater works (see definition below) than He did. The works that Jesus did were works of power. Works that were supernatural in nature. For us to be the Light of the World, like He was, we must awaken to this supernatural reality of the Christian life. We are the light of the world, just like Jesus!