People don� �t actually come out and say it, but in the words they speak they� �re sure beating around the bushes pretty soundly. Any passerby who overhears the religious conversation comes away with this picture. Jesus is a comet. He came from outer space some 2,000 years ago, zipped past planet earth (the passing took 33 years) and for the last 2,000 years He has been making this journey through the universe and one day the trajectory will bring Him back to earth. The promise is that He will come again. Who believes this stuff: implied or otherwise?

In other words, the so-called Incarnation was just a temporary visitation.

This religious-heavenly story just isn� �t being bought today and neither was it being sold 2,000 years ago. The real story does not end with the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. It has continued ever since. The drama of that event that happened 2,000 years ago has been so exalted, so watered down, and so made a religious artifact for sale no one really know what� �s being sold.

Jesus was a MAN!

Can you not hear Peter as he speaks to the people on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:22-24), saying, � �Men of Israel, listen to me: I speak of Jesus of Nazareth, a MAN singled out by God, and made known to you through miracles, portents, and signs.� � But, Jesus became so much more than a MAN and He has told us that we can do the same: maybe even more (John 14:12).

YES!

But, in order to do so, we have to give up on the far-fetched stories that religion has encased Him in. We need to let Jesus out of the religious box and see Him as one of us, but one who so loved God, had such an intimacy with Him, that He became the unique, first born, last Adam, first fruit, and first TRUE SON OF GOD! We� �ve got work to do my friends, and that work needs to begin in the church before we do the work we need to do outside the church. Will the church be up to it? Does the church have the courage to get real and BE the Christ that we� �re called to be?

Or has there been too much of an investment in securing what the church now sells that it can� �t change?

How much longer will the � �Christ Comet� � paradigm hold up in today� �s world?