Do we downgrade Christ?

Michael Reeves  |  Features  |  everyday theology
Date posted:  18 Jul 2024
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Do we downgrade Christ?

A trite porcelain figurine of Christ reduces Him to a twee ornament | photo: iStock

To be faithful to the gospel means treating Christ and His redeeming death and resurrection as matters ‘of first importance’ (1 Cor. 15:3-4). And yet, through the centuries, Christians have managed to downgrade Jesus, cast Him in their own image, or use Him as the icing to sell some other agenda.

But that is not the evangelical way. Evangelicals look to Scripture to know Christ, and there they find the unique Son of God, exclusive in His glorious identity and completely sufficient as a Saviour.

The Gospel of John opens like a parting of the clouds with the most glorious possible assertion of the unique identity of Christ: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men’ (1:1-4).

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