After Jesus had saved me I began approaching Christians,

“Tell me about Jesus.”  I would query.  Most could not.  Some could tell me about the plan of Salvation, some the doctrine of salvation but very few could actually tell me about Jesus.  There were the few, who’s eye would light up and they would look at me with disbelief … “Do you really want to know?”

So, “tell me about Jesus”.  Tell me about the Jesus you know.  Tell me about the Jesus the apostles preached.  Tell me about the Jesus you know.  Come; let's get to know this Jesus together. 

Can we put personality traits with Jesus based on our own experiences with Him?  Yes!  But wait … can you?

Should we fear getting this intimate with Him?  Yes! 

Can we say Jesus performs similarly each time we experience Him?  Yes!

Does it always leave you satisfied, happy and 'full' (yet still wanting more) when you pull away from His presence?  Yes!

Does He ever take you by surprise or demonstrate His sense of humor when He answers your prayers, and leaves you no doubt He was there? Yes!  

If Jesus came back in a physical body today, how would you know him?  Would He be 'just' another face in the crowd?  (Remember his disciples were not sure it was He they talked with after the resurrection, John 21!) 

Does your very soul burn within you when you are in His presence?

Who is this Jesus? 

We can get to know Him.  We can!  This book is an attempt to tell you about Jesus … the Jesus I have come to know … so that you can believe in Him too.

Jesus knew the struggles we have, the struggles to be free, happy, to provide for our families and to feel safe.  He knew that in this physical realm our controls are external.  He was downcast by the people who exploited others by these external controls.  To hurt people is easy, to heal is greatness, and to forgive is the image of God himself.

Jesus gives us the ability to soar well beyond the reach of our own capabilities.  He bears us up as the wind carries the eagle.  This article is an attempt to share Jesus as I have come to know Him.  I wish to share the risen Son of God's personality and way with you.  This is not based solely on my own limited experience.  For some time now I have been asking Christians, "Tell me about Jesus." 

          Not just the effects of Jesus; but about Jesus.

                    Not the doctrine of salvation or grace but, about Jesus.

                              Not the distant Jesus but the Jesus who lives in us and

                                        is among us, the Jesus who's body we are.

I am finding that most Christians do not 'know' Jesus.  They only know the things that are taught them in church ...

how a Christian acts ...

what is right ...

what is wrong ...

scriptures that are difficult to assimilate into their being so they will have meaning.

Not that this is wrong.  It isn’t wrong.  It is incomplete.  A complete relationship with Jesus is alive, ever changing and ever the same.  It is His love for us and our love for Him filling us and changing us and teaching us and completing us.

          Because if there is no relationship with Jesus, there is little or no healing and we are generally indistinguishable from those who profess to hate Christ.  (I am not saying this to cause havoc, I do not think Christians should dress up in long Stone Age robes.  We should not dress by a dress code.  We should not groom our hair according to our leader's regulations.  We should not hide in remote enclaves or in our mountain valleys.  We should not exclude ourselves in our Christian clubs.  Christians should not be physically distinguishable from every one else.  We should be distinguishable only by our love.)  I am finding that many Christians are 'in it' for the control ... either that control which is placed over them or the control which they can place over others.  Neither is evidence of Christianity. 

Why is this important?  Because Jesus said, 'Where ever two or more of you are gathered in my name, there I am also.'  If we believe in Jesus then one of the clues of his presence is the love that he commanded.  If there is no love among us then Jesus is not there.  In accepting Jesus we are imbued with the endowment to become children of God.  This is only done through faith in Jesus.  Where Jesus is there is love for each other and for those out-side of the Body of Christ as well.  Remember: God (our Father) loved the world so much, he gave His only Son (Jesus) that who ever believed in Him would not die but would live eternally. 

Jesus said that if a tree bares good fruit it is a good tree; if it bares bad fruit it is inevitably a bad tree.  This means that we should likewise look for the fruit of the tree.  Let's see what is really happening among us. 

          If it walks like a duck. 

                    If it floats on water. 

                              If it waddles when it walks and

                                        quacks when it talks ...

                                                  in all likelihood, it is a duck.

"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."  Isaiah 40: 31