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So What Does Jesus Mean to Me? Let Me Start With 5 Life-Changing Things
I am so glad you asked, but this may take a while
Okay, so maybe you didn’t ask what Jesus means to me, but someone did recently.
Here I am, a pastor for over 30 years who has spent his entire adult life preaching about Jesus, and no one has asked me that question before.
Each week I spend countless hours working on sermons to tell people what I think about Jesus, yet this question struck me.
For the most part, my sermons are geared toward seeing the tree, but not the forest. When I preach, I look at a specific text to get one main point across, and somehow it is always supposed to relate to Jesus.
However, each sermon is narrow and focused. My craft is to be able to reduce my sermon to one sentence.
This question was posed to me as “give me your 30,000-foot view of Jesus.” Tell me all the things that He means to you, why it matters, and why you would want to convince other people to enter into this same type of relationship with Him.
So let me give you a few things that came to mind instantly when I thought about what Jesus means to me:
