Welcome March 22, 2004 Issue

From Jesus the man—to Jesus the Christ

Bill Dawley

WHEN I WAS A KID growing up in the Baptist Sunday School and was learning about Jesus, I used to think of him as a pretty cool guy. For one thing he lived in a warm, deserty kind of place—something like Florida or California. So he had to be tan. Also, he was a carpenter. So he probably was pretty muscular, and his hands were probably the hands of a workingman.

And what about going into a temple and whipping moneychangers out? No wimp here. He was the kind of man I was used to being around—like my dad—strong, tough, kind, hardworking. And I was told if I could get my act together as a Christian, I'd see Jesus when he returned to Earth.

The man called Jesus—my picture of him in thought—maybe still isn't all that different in my mind from what it was then. But I now know something that I didn't know then—that Jesus was a pure expression of the Christ. I've learned from studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the the human consciousness" (p.332). Now I know that Christ is eternal—without time or space. And I know that you and I, and anybody, can follow Jesus, because, in reality, I'm the expression of Christ, too, just like you are.

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