Whose Son is the Christ?

To this day, debates go on about the identity of Jesus.  How should we understand him?  Who did he understand himself to be?  As the years go on many people suggest new possibilities: zealot revolutionary, Buddhist monk, moral philosopher, etc.  But each of these explanations tend to fall far afield of what would have made sense in the 1st Century, not to mention what Jesus actually said about himself.  This week Jesus asks a question of his adversaries that seems simple at first.  “Whose son is Messiah?”  Any religious scholar would have said Messiah is Son of David.  But it soon becomes clear that, in Jesus’ mind, the identity of Messiah, his own identity, is far more complicated.  Join us Sunday for one of Jesus’ most intense claims.