Resurrection Church

Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ. So what makes Jesus so different? The very name Jesus seems to bother people. You can talk about God, but mention Jesus and people want to stop the conversation. Why don't the names of Buddha, Muhammad, or Confucius offend people the way the name of Jesus does? These other religious leaders didn't claim to be God. It didn't take long for people who knew Jesus to realize that this carpenter from Nazareth was making astounding claims about himself. Jesus was making claims to deity and presenting himself as the only avenue to salvation and the only source of forgiveness of sins---things they knew that only God could claim. For many people today Jesus claim to be the Son of God is just too exclusive. In our pluralistic culture, it is too narrow and smacks of religious bigotry. We don't want to believe it. Yet the issue is not what we want to believe, but rather, who did Jesus claim to be? And is his claim true?