The churches have had many hundreds of years
experience in handing Jesus over to the Governor.
Not exact matches
Even though my department meetings still don't end
in holding
hands and singing «Kum Ba Yah,» I am blessed that my days are enveloped
in experiencing Jesus at work, with other Christians.
In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.&raqu
In the Easter
experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty
hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.&raqu
in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this
Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.»
On the other
hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical
Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical
Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his
experience and so share his confidence
in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of
Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of
Jesus» confidence and courage....
Rather, I have begun more and more to
experience for myself the «joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim, and which shone out
in the lives of the priests who inspired me as a young man: an extraordinary sense of peace, happiness and purpose which comes from encountering
Jesus and
handing your life over to him.»
The sacramental teaching of the gospel, on the other
hand, while much of it certainly reflects the
experience of early Christians, seems,
in comparison with the rest of the New Testament evidence, to be only partially based on the teaching of the
Jesus of history.