Who Do People Say I Am? Quotes

“I have come to believe that Jesus accepted strangeness within himself, and the strangeness he accepted gives him a close relation to all “the strangeness” in our world today. And what is the nature of the strangeness today? The strangeness is found not only in people who live on the fringes of society, and people of every color, creed, nationality, and religious belief. The strangeness is found also in the highly unusual, even “totally weird” images, pictures, and, can we say, “beliefs,” that some people create today. In other words, if we really could believe that Jesus accepted a role of being “strange,” then it may help us accept not only many of the strange things that happen in our world today, but also how strange some of the things we say and think may seem to other people, even as the things they say and believe seem strange to us.”
― Vernon K. Robbins, Who Do People Say I Am?: Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity