Talk:KCU/03/MBCS

As a first draft, this contribution falls short. (This would not pass if submitted for the final draft.) Your first two paragraphs are not bad, but they really can only serve as an introductory section. You are lacking the body & conclusion of your paper. You are also lacking detailed evidence & dialog partners from extra research

Things to work on:

1. Write a lot more paragraphs like what you have with your introduction

2. Bring in dialog partners from extra research

3. Look up more of the biblical evidence

4. Look up technical commentaries on the biblical evidence: e.g., commentaries from the NIV Application Commentary Series, the Word Biblical Commentary Series, the New International Commentary on the New Testament Series, &/or the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament Series.

Here are some web resources that might help:

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2689

http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue62b.htm

http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine17&item=1104101990

http://www.growingchristians.org/dfgc/servant.htm

http://mwillett.org/atheism/WWJD.htm

http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/sg60-29.htm

http://www.apuritansmind.com/Apologetics/SituationalEthicsWWJD.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=0YGvVaIN2cEC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=wwjd&source=web&ots=1Hollzu2eP&sig=W9b8BcsqZ-9TsLQaXK5yVbEVktU

http://www.allaboutfollowingjesus.org/wwjd-faq.htm

http://www.trueu.org/Academics/LectureHall/A000000599.cfm http://books.google.com/books?id=bOa_GU5PlBUC&dq=wwjd&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=X9D7q4jiNE&sig=cH98zQsxFqjHL_U-OwB-Nk7a388

http://gadfly.igc.org/liberal/WWJD.htm

http://www.the-highway.com/wwjd.html

Below is a good forum contribution by a student in the Christian Heritage online class (Missi Balch) that may be helpful to you, which you may use as one of your dialog partners:

Since I fully understand the fact that Jesus was fully man and fully God, I can see how his life was a perfect and complete example of how we should live. I spent the first twenty-five years of my life not really knowing how to live. I followed some of what my parents did, some of what my friends did, and very little of how God wanted me to live. Until I had a personal relationship with Christ, I was aimlessly wandering around this world trying to figure things out. My purpose in life was discovered through this relationship with Christ that evolved from reading the Bible, having fellowship with other Christians, attending church and Sunday school. As I began to study the life of Christ, I was able to see that His humanness and Hid godliness were absolutely perfect.

God as the human Jesus is a concept that is difficult for many to comprehend. As a matter of fact, just last Sunday in my small group Bible study, a woman asked why Jesus would refer to Himself as “Son of Man”. I thought oooh, oooh, oooh, I know this one, pick me! It was clear to me why He would say this. But, it dawned on me that it wasn’t long ago when I was in her position. Why did Jesus refer to himself as “Son of Man”? The reason is because He was the son of a man. He was fully man and fully God at the same time. Jesus used this term to identify Himself with the human race. According to Colossians 2:9 “The fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form”.

Now that I have a relationship with Christ and recognize that he is God in the flesh, I now look to Him as the example of how to live my life. Jesus’ ministry years as told through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are packed full of examples of how to live. In Cloud and Townsend’s book How People Grow, They describe ways in which we can learn from Christ’s example when dealing with suffering, being sinned against, authority over evil, and dealing with temptation. Jesus shows us how to treat others, how to grieve, how to pray, when to cry, when to and how to worship, and how to pray. Every aspect of our lives has been also experienced by Jesus. This is so important to realize because without Him having the same human experiences as us, we would easily discount that he really understood us and therefore would not follow his examples. Even Ghandi quoted “I tell the Hindus that their lives will be imperfect if they do not also study reverently the teaching of Jesus” (Christianity for Skeptics by Steve Kumar, p.82).

Is there any aspect of Jesus’ life that isn’t an example for me? Yes, all of His supernatural powers. The part of Him that is fully God. I can’t compete with that. I think His example of when he walked on water and calmed the storm. That isn’t exactly an example of how I should live my life. The reaction and response by Peter is how I should live my life. It teaches me to learn to trust Jesus and know that he is in control. Jesus died on the cross for the atonement of my sins. I am not expected to put myself on the same level as Christ. I am just to follow his footsteps, walk closely to Him, letting his example be my guide. We get into trouble if we begin to compare ourselves to Christ.