Week 1: Hope in King Jesus: The Genesis of God
There is the Jesus we know and welcome into our lives. The risen Jesus. There is also the historical Jesus – the Jesus who lived in first-century Palestine. An actual flesh and blood Jesus who walked real streets and talked with real people. It’s the historical Jesus who lived a real life and died a real and agonizing death, whose physical body rose from the grave to give us new life. The risen, divine Jesus is known through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Jesus who lived in first-century Palestine is knowable through the evidence that has survived – The Gospels. In them we discover that the calling of us all depends not on the merits of our own righteousness, but on God’s sheer generosity.