Ten Things We Forgot About Jesus
The Jesus you learned about in Sunday School doesn’t exist
When I was a kid growing up in the church, we sang a hymn that described Jesus as “gentle Jesus — meek and mild.” It left me with the conception of Jesus as a cooperative, compliant, docile, passive, and largely timid figure. Now that I think about it, projecting this image of Jesus was probably part of some strategy to teach ten-year-old me how to behave.
Be well-manned and nice.
Jesus was nothing like that.
In fact, Jesus was — in a cultural, social, and religious sense — a real troublemaker. Do yourself a favor. Open the Bible and discover who the real Jesus actually was. You might just have some misconceptions destroyed.
You see, somewhere along the line, we created a ‘Jesus’ in our own image and began to impart that image to the world. But, unfortunately, the reality is that the Jesus you learned about in Sunday School probably doesn’t exist.
If you grew up in the church, then I can’t speak for your experience. But, here are ten things that they didn’t teach me about Jesus in Sunday School — that have reformed my understanding of who Jesus actually was:
