Are Christians the only category of people who want to be like Jesus? I don’t think so. In fact, why do we assume people have to become a Christian before they can want to be like Jesus? There may be more than a smidge of elitism in that assumption.
In Part Two of this essay I offer another reason why affirming the resurrection of Jesus by His name (not just by the title Christ) further emphasizes not only God’s nature, but the nature of His kingdom.
Very often Christians use the title “Christ” to refer to Jesus, the Son of God. But there is one time of year I am particularly eager to proclaim the heart of the resurrection message of the earliest Christians and say “Jesus is risen!”
Why did the apostle Paul make up an Old Testament sounding verse to explain God’s ways and what does that have to do with the resurrection?