The
Who Is Jesus?Who Is Jesus? unit uses the Bible story included in Luke 9:18-21; Matthew 16:13-17; and Mark 8:27-29. The Bible gives many examples to help people discover who Jesus is. As Christians we believe Jesus is the Messiah, the special one sent by God.
By the end of this unit children will:
By the end of this unit children will:
become familiar with stories that tell about Jesus as God’s Son;
discover the meaning of the word Messiah;
recognize that Jesus was not the Messiah people expected;
be given the opportunity to explore who Jesus is to them.
become familiar with stories that tell about Jesus as God’s Son;
discover the meaning of the word Messiah;
recognize that Jesus was not the Messiah people expected;
be given the opportunity to explore who Jesus is to them.
E. Stanley Jones (1884 - 1973)
Was a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and the Nehru family. Gandhi challenged Jones and, through Jones' writing, the thousands of Western missionaries working there during the last decades of the British Raj, to include greater respect for the mindset and strengths of the Indian character in their work.His work became interdenominational and world-wide. He helped to re-establish the Indian “Ashram” (or forest retreat) as a means of drawing men and women together for days at a time to study in depth their own spiritual natures and quest, and what the different faiths offered individuals. In 1930, along with a British missionary and Indian pastor and using the sound Christian missionary principle of indigenization. (God’s reconciliation to mankind through Jesus on the cross. He made Him visible as the Universal Son of Man who had come for all people. This opening up of nations to receiving Christ within their own framework marked a new approach in missions called "indigenization") Dr. Jones reconstituted the “Ashram” with Christian disciplines. This institution became known as the ”Christian Ashram.”
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