As He Is

Greetings, and welcome to my new blog. This isn’t my first foray into blogging, but I come into it this time with a different perspective. There is a very specific topic that is on my heart, and yet it is one so vast that it cannot be exhausted. In the past I have written to express myself; this time I humbly write in hopes of expressing someone else. That person is Jesus Christ.

In the church today Jesus Christ frequently takes a back seat to other things. Doctrines, teachers, and specific practices become the focus of the Christian life shortly after someone is saved. In the past I too have spent so much time on other things and begun to see Christ Himself as the “elementary teaching” that Paul mentioned in Hebrews 6.

Boy, was I wrong.

In the last few years I have been reawakened to the person of Jesus Christ. I have seen Him as He is, the fullness of God who fills all in all. And I have begun to experience Christ and the reality of Him living in me in ways that have boggled my mind. In short, I am captivated by Jesus Christ, and this blog is some of what is spilling out of me. It’s not that other topics are not important, but they are not independent of Christ; He is central to them.

I could say much more about these things, but if I put it all in one post, what would be the reason for a blog? :) My plan is to post 1 to 2 times per week on Jesus Christ as He is, and my prayer is that you and anyone else reading would see Him more clearly and fall more deeply in love with Him. I’m sure I’ll be able to put a finer point on what I’ll be writing about as time goes on. Please feel free to comment (agree or disagree) as you see fit. And may Jesus Christ be manifested and glorified in His church.

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.” 1 John 4:16-17

In Christ,

Ryan

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