Why should I bother about Jesus?
Table of contents for Why should I bother about Jesus?
- Why should I bother about Jesus?
- Why should I bother about Jesus? Part 2
- Why should I bother about Jesus? Part 3
- Why should I bother about Jesus? Part 4
Why should I bother about Jesus? Is a very important question to ask. What is so important about Jesus that he should bother me 2000 later? There are many historical people but I don’t spend my time reading their writings – save perhaps for when I read a history book. Isn’t Jesus just someone else from history?
Over the next few blog entries I’m going to think about this question and attempt to answer it in some way. I think it is a very important question to answer. If Jesus is just another historical person with some interesting things to say then I have some more important things to be spending my time on. But if Jesus is who the church says he is then everything else I might spend my time on seems a little insignificant.
The first point I want to make is that we should bother about Jesus because he is at the centre of something very important that happened around 2000 years ago so that after Jesus things would not be the same in the world ever again.
Jesus isn’t just another person in history. Jesus introduces a way of thinking about life that is different from anything that came before or since. There are similarities, of course, with other religious figures and philosophers but Jesus has some very unique things to say and do. We don’t do justice to other religious leaders or philosophers or for that matter Jesus if we just ignore the differences and focus on the similarities.
Some of the important things that Jesus spoke about will be covered in other posts but for now I want to make the point that something incredibly important happened in Israel/Palestine 2000 years ago and it centres on the figure of Jesus.
This dramatic change is worth exploring for itself. Understanding this change could have a very positive effect on the life of individuals and the world today.
If you doubt this importance then consider that more books and more films and more songs have been written about Jesus than any other person that has ever lived. Even today people’s interest in Jesus does not diminish. There is even an atheist group know as Atheists for Jesus.
Jesus is worth bothering about because no one else has ever had such an impact on the world. If you are looking for answers to the deeper questions of life (and everyone should be) then you have to be bothered with Jesus.
