OK, this is one that has got me thinking, and given that I’m writing this before I go to sleep (I’m already sitting up in my bed), it probably won’t do justice to it. But after seeing the following quote over on the comments at a post on Jesus Creed (very good blog), something struck me.
Would Jesus use PowerPoint?
The comment is innocouos enough, and I’m not that sure that there was heaps of thought gone into it, but it put to the front of my mind a bit of a dilemma. Specifically, how much of following Jesus means actually taking a very stylistically similar approach?
Because in the past I’ve sub-consciously accepted that the way Jesus did things is exactly the way I should do things. That we should be modelling ourselves on the models that Christ used. But if we accept that Jesus was a person, with his own personality, then how much of the way he operates comes out of those inherent instincts, and how much is specifically “the God way to do things”? To give an example – Jesus taught mostly in parables. Is that because it was the best way to teach to people, or did he teach in parables because he was naturally a storyteller and so he felt more comfortable speaking in stories?
I might need to re-visit some of this, and there’s no doubt a significant influence of culture on these questions as well. I might need to cogitate over this a little more.