Personal Statement Of Christ

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In meeting Christ we find a way to know God and find redemption.
Jesus as the Christ is a faith foundation.
Jesus’ actions are strange to us, however we know through journey that Christ orients us towards truths.
Jesus and God meet on the bridge between humanity and divinity.
In Christ’s continued living we are drawn to faith and drawn to serve other.
In Christ we find intimate relationship.

In my self-generated statement of faith I have continued the conversation from my last statement which finishes with “(Scripture) reveals ways to know God, meet Christ, and engage Spirit. Scripture challenges us to work in faithfulness, with an open mind, to advance a world of inclusiveness and equity in faithfulness to God’s redemptive call.” It was …show more content…

It is clear from my comments about Jesus, that like the Spirit and God, he is unknowable. So is Christ’s action. In 1940 this mystery was confronted directly in relation to redemptive action: “redemption… is… an awful mystery and a glorious fact.” I see Christ more different than Spirit and God to some extent because we have this human presentation and action. So while perhaps Jesus himself is not fully mystery, he is certainly stranger. My review of the faith statements helped me to identify and articulate a central understanding of my Jesus: that he models for us how to serve, how to be for other. This language is crucial for my understanding of both resurrection and redemption. The closest language I find in the Song of Faith is that, “(i)n Jesus’ life, teaching, and self-offering, God empowers us to live in love.” While the term self-offering is part of it, this also could be seen to speak to the action of the cross alone. For me, it is both the action of being for other throughout his lived experience as well as the action of ‘suffering for’ in his …show more content…

This means to me, that Jesus was and is ‘for other.’ Hall considers this in his soteriology conversation. I believe that the incarnation of Jesus represents the ultimate expression of radical love for humanity and my journey in theological study has particularly drawn on Queer theology as a voice within the Liberation theology movement that works to understand Jesus’ incarnation in relationship with ‘other.’ This voice is constructed from, among other things, love that sits outside the boundaries of societal constructs. If indeed we live in “the anxiety of meaninglessness and emptiness,” I find that the context of Queer theology offers a way to see through this and live authentically and inclusively. Because it sees “Christian theology itself is a fundamentally queer enterprise which challenges and deconstructs, through radical love, all kinds of binary categories that on the surface seem fixed and unchangeable, but ultimately are fluid and malleable,” I find a place where I am able to be my authentic self and find that God in Christ meets me there. I too am called to meet people where they are

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