It wasn't the
summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the
summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who
broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who
answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved
after being betrayed, healed
after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...
The former Valencia ace is currently on an extended
break after featuring at the Confederations Cup earlier this
summer, but he's due to report back to Valverde and the rest of the squad for pre-season training this coming week and
answers over his future will likely follow soon
after.