Advent: A Jesus Who Breaks My Paradigms

Do you ever forget Jesus was radical?

I do.

Of course, I don’t mean he was radical in the sense of throwing pipe bombs or agitating for anarchy. Jesus was a radical in an entirely different way. A peaceful way. And yet, he was still such a threat to the established social order that the people in power wanted Him dead.

Somehow, I think we forget that. Or at least I do. It’s easy for me to get cozy in my American brand of Christianity and think what Jesus expects of me is actually pret...