Meeting Jesus again for the first time.

In these days of tremendous flux and change we long for some constant, unchanging realities to fix our lives on. We seem to have abandoned the middle and polarized to extremes right and left in so many areas - politics, religion included. What if in our religious thinking and believing we could meet Jesus again and for the first time. What if we could peel back the layers of our religious history, accumulated over thousands of years, and meet Jesus as though it were for the first time? Would our thinking, unaffected by the structures of church, politics, economics, sociologies be the same about him or quite different? Jesus’ friend John helps us to remember one of the interesting ways Jesus presented himself. He often used the words “I am..” Who is it that we’re meeting when this is his chosen introduction? Here are some of his words: I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world. I am the door of the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I am the resurrection and the life. I am the true vine. I am the way, the truth and the life. In the next few blogs we’ll drill down on these ideas.