"Do you really know Jesus?
It is often the case that people think they know about Jesus but have never encountered Him personally.
A belief system is then based upon another perspective rather than reality."
Most of the world knows the Jesus who was born in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. Who grew up in a town called Nazareth in what is now called Israel. Who gathered the disciples and traveled the region, teaching and performing miracles. The same Jesus who was also arrested, tortured and executed on a cross.
Those disciples spoke about Jesus and how He rose from the dead, performed miracles in His name and it was from those followers that the church as we know today was birthed.
These are the common facts that most will have heard but the Bible teaches us much more than the historical narrative. It teaches the where, the what, the how and more importantly His revelance today to us and our lives...
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:
I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to...”
C.S Lewis - Mere Christianity