Being a Christian Today Essay

Tags: christian spirituality god jesus love earth suffering grief power disciples conflict

Open, View, and/or
Download this Document

Total Length: 651 words ( 2 double-spaced pages)

Total Sources: 1

Page 1 of 2

More Words and Deeds of Jesus

1

The festival of Tabernacles was a harvest feast, and John 7-8 takes place at the beginning, middle and end of the feast (Harrington, 2011). Throughout the festival, workers camped in the fields. In the beginning of John 7, Jesus is aware that the Jews want to kill him, so he avoids them. However, he does not stay away completely. In the middle of the festival, he enters into a discussion with the Jews because some of them want to know how He came to have such divine knowledge. In John 7:14-24, Christ explains to them that He knows because His knowledge comes from His father in heaven. He intimates that He has been sent to harvest souls for God the Father. In this sense, His time is like that of the festival of Tabernacles, which is also a harvest festival. Christ’s mission is synonymous with the festival: each has come to reap what has been sown and will gather together for the great feast—only Christ’s is not on earth but in Heaven with God. Just as the harvest festival separates the fruit from the earth, Christ too sets about causing separation and division (John 7:37-52). Jesus “makes a public statement that creates division within the crowd and evokes greater hostility among the chief priests and the Pharisees,” according to Harrington, 2011, p. 42). This is Jesus’s way of personifying the harvest: he will take the good fruit of harvest with Him—but first He must separate the good from the bad.

Stuck Writing Your "Being a Christian Today" Essay?

View All Our Example Being a Christian Today Essay

Have A Custom Example Essay Written



2

The various groups of people who misunderstood Jesus were the Pharisees, the Gentiles and even His own disciples. When He was misunderstood, He responded in different ways. Sometimes, He affirmed His own divinity (John 7:25-26). Other times, He used the power of the parable to explain His meaning. On numerous occasions, he declares that He is God (John 8:24-30) and that all must repent or die in their sins and be cut off from God. He identifies Himself as the truth that will free them (John 8:31-36). He tells the Jews that they are not of God, otherwise they would believe in Him (John 8:47-50). To the Gentiles and Jews He sends other messages—i.e., numerous miracles that tell of His divinity. The impact of His direct statements, His indirect statements (parables) and His miracles was that it essentially….....

Show More ⇣

     Open the full completed essay and source list


OR

     Order a one-of-a-kind custom essay on this topic


References

Harrington, D. (2011). Meeting St. John Today: Understanding the Man, His Mission and His Message. Chicago, IL: Loyola Press.

sample essay writing service

Cite This Resource:

Latest APA Format (6th edition)

Copy Reference
"Being A Christian Today" (2018, September 30) Retrieved April 26, 2024, from
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/being-christian-today-essay

Latest MLA Format (8th edition)

Copy Reference
"Being A Christian Today" 30 September 2018. Web.26 April. 2024. <
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/being-christian-today-essay>

Latest Chicago Format (16th edition)

Copy Reference
"Being A Christian Today", 30 September 2018, Accessed.26 April. 2024,
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/being-christian-today-essay
   

Open, View, and/or
Download this Document
order custom essay example