Jesus the Solution?

I've been doing some thinking and reading and think that I have come up with one reason that so many people accept Christ and then do nothing else with their lives. I think it may, in part, be due to the manner in which we present the Gospel. We have, historically, just presented Jesus as the Solution to our 'problem' as humans. So people accept Christ and then their 'problem' is solved and He is filed away in some box. Please don't get me wrong, I believe that Christ did come to earth to die for our salvation. But is Christ not so much more than that? He desires to live with us on a daily basis...to hear our worries and desires...to hold us when are upset or celebrate when we achieve success. I heard someone recently speak about how when the church first began it was not known as Christianity, it was simply The Way. Christ came to show us the way to live.

When the woman in Scripture with the bleeding problem touched the edge of Jesus' robe, she was healed. But Jesus was not content to stop there. He told her to, "Go in peace." But the Hebrew understanding of peace was not just the absence of strife or conflict. It was a filling of God's presence. So not only did Jesus heal her, He told her to be filled with the presence of God and live that way. How would the world look differently if every Christ follower were to live as if filled with the presence of God? In my last post, I rethought the meaning of the Ten Commandments that God gave Moses and it seems to me that they echo what Christ taught...love God and love people. If we follow these two goals, I believe that it is impossible for us to disobey God.