Most of the time we try to fit Jesus into our culturally-accepted view of God, and the early Christians did the same thing. But Jesus doesn’t fit into our categories. As Kingdom people, we’re meant to follow Jesus’ example and revolt against what’s normal in our culture. Three disciplines that can help us are practicing God’s presence, fasting and community.
Wes I really liked Greg Boyd's message in this video. I have never heard him before. Thanks for sharing this. He reminds me of the focus we had during the Jesus movement back in the early 70's. It's all about Jesus. Jesus was and is the very character of an extremely radically passionate loving God. Definitely not the norm for our modern day or any society.
The pledge to submit our life to Christ isn't the life we pledged to submit to Christ. The life we pledge to submit to Christ is the life we have lived every moment since we made that pledge, because the only life we have to give to Christ is the life we live moment by moment.