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I quote the following from the book Jesus Manifesto a free reader’s copy of which I received recently Publication will be soon). The authors (Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola) claim that the ultimate question facing this generation in and out of the church today is: “Who do you say that I am”?  the question Jesus asked his disciples. Apparently, the church has given inadequate answers to this question recently according to Sweet and Viola. . The divine in Christ, they say, is eroding while the human in Christ is piling up as the church’s sole agenda.

Emphasis here is on “you say.” The authors also claim that “every revival and restoration in the church has been a rediscovery of some aspect of Christ in the process of answering this critical question. In fact, three features are present in every awakening in the history of the Christian church: (1) a rediscovery of the ‘living word,’ or the Scriptures and its authority; (2) a rediscovery of the loving Christ and His supremacy; and (3) a rediscovery of the living Spirit and the Spiriti’s gifts and power to manifest Christ in the context of culture. God has a history of taking seriously people who take God’s Word seriously.”

What do you think of this quote? Do the authors have a legitimate complaint to make with regard to the way many make much more of the human Christ and so little of the divine Christ?