{"id":117,"date":"2009-04-06T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:42:55","slug":"jesus-christ-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"V 2. JESUS CHRIST SPIRITUALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Note: <\/strong>It is strongly suggested that you\u00a0 print off\u00a0 a complete section for reading through at a\u00a0 later date than trying to read the content of this website directly off the computer screen.<\/h3>\n

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So what is understood then by A Spirituality from Jesus Christ?<\/h3>\n

Index to this section:<\/h3>\n

1. A Biblical Spirituality<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2. The Roman Empire<\/strong><\/h3>\n

3. The Christian Church Sequence<\/strong><\/h3>\n

4. Back to the Future<\/strong><\/h3>\n

5. The Historical Influence of Jesus Christ<\/strong><\/h3>\n

6. The Newly Emerging Church<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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1. A Biblical Spirituality: an Overview of <\/strong>a spirituality from Jesus Christ <\/strong><\/h3>\n

A Christian Spirituality is based on what God has revealed through His son Jesus Christ and His Word the Bible. It is based on an everlasting covenant that God initiated when He created man in the beginning. This covenant exemplifies Gods unconditional love for us, His grace and His mercy towards us through the death and resurrection of His son Jesus Christ. He has made a way for us to be accepted for who we are and not<\/span> what we have done. The essence of a Spirituality from Jesus Christ is God coming to us in the human form of Jesus Christ. It isn’t about making us so we can find God or Jesus Christ being another spiritual prophet leading us to God. God wants us to be with Him forever …. He is passionate about us …. He comes to us.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

A Spirituality from Jesus Christ results from a Biblical Spirituality which begins with the Bible. There is a truth concerning God and the whole of life. It was a<\/strong><\/span><\/span> True Truth<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong> communicated by God who sees the whole Cosmos as the large picture plus you and me as part of the detailed small picture. Seeing God is the Creator of all things, God knows the final truth. This truth was communicated by prophets and seers over many years and finally in person in Jesus of Nazareth who was God Himself in human form. These truths were collated in the Bible which consists of sixty six books written by people who didn’t often know each other over 1500 years ++, yet whose writing manifests an amazing unity. In this unity there is even a mathematical sequence which flows from beginning to the end.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The books of the Bible are divided into two sections: The Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the story the nation of Israel which predicts the coming of the Messiah. The Messiah came in the person of Jesus of the New Testament as the New Israel. There are some striking parallels like an intricate Biblical clockwork within the bigger Biblical clockwork. This gives us even great confidence in the Word of God as the Word for the Old and New Testament.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read more on the nature of the Bible\u00a0 being the Truth of God at this post:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=2205 <\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Covenant …..\u00a0 a Biblical Overview: <\/strong><\/span><\/span>In the Old Covenant of the Old Testament is the New Concealed and in the New Covenant in the New Testament is the Old Revealed\u00a0 Jeremiah 31: 31 The time is coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Download and read the brochure\u00a0The Covenants Comparisons<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> by myself in January 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also see the<\/span> Blog Site on Christian Spirituality<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>which discusses this theme in more detail through words and photographs.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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THE FOCUS OF JESUS: <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The focus of Jesus was on an internal, invisible change of heart and not on an external, visible keeping of certain standards and religious laws. The life He presented was an internal one which flowed out to have external, visible actions ….. especially on how we treated other people. Life is an <\/span>Inside – Out<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0approach and not an <\/span>Outside – In <\/span><\/strong>approach. He wanted people to understand that external appearances do not define us as individuals but it is our character.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jesus’s view of people was radically different to his religious counterparts. His religious counterparts had people graded into a hierarchy of those who within their religious framework of acceptability. who kept close adherence to the teachings, standards and religious laws that they subscribed to. The organisation \u00a0was more \u00a0important than the individual.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jesus didn’t start an organisation but developed relationships with a small core of people. These then multiplied around the then known world into small committed fellowships or house churches. In the New Testament Greek of the New Testament, Church is translated from the word <\/span>ekklesia<\/span><\/em>\u00a0which is simply a gathering or community of relationships who gave value to one another.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jesus had a very Hebrew view of life which was very wholistic whereby all aspects of life had value to God. There were two parts to the world:<\/span><\/h3>\n