It happens all the time: friendships forged through shared experiences. . . teammates who compete together, colleagues who work together, classmates who study together, combatants who endure hardship together. We could go on and on.<\/p>\n
SpendaYearwith<\/span>Jesus<\/strong> attempts to create a shared experience with someone who walked the earth a long time ago. Our tag-line is Connect with Jesus’ experience<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n As we start our year with<\/span>Jesus<\/strong>, let us receive some encouragement from theologian Raymond Brown who invited his readers to enter into the world of the Gospel of John<\/em>.<\/p>\n Brown offers three exhortations for those who wish to communicate Jesus’ experience.<\/p>\n 1. Do not be afraid to use ingenuity in rendering Jesus’ story dramatically. Inspired by Brown’s recommendations, my desire is to communicate Jesus’ story experientially, dramatically, humanly, and concretely. I invite you to “Connect with Jesus’ experience” to enhance your relationship with Him, and in doing so affirm and strengthen experiences which build healthy relationships among all people of the world!<\/p>\n Sincerely, ____________ It happens all the time: friendships forged through shared experiences. . . teammates who compete together, colleagues who work together, classmates who study together, combatants who endure hardship together. We could go on and on. SpendaYearwithJesus attempts to create a shared experience with someone who walked the earth a long time ago. Our tag-line is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Do not domesticate … Jesus.
\n3. Do not be too sophisticated or abstract.**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDaniel J. Pfeifer
\nAuthor and Founder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n**R. E. Brown, \u201cThe Johannine World for Preachers,\u201d Interpretation<\/em> 43, no. 1 (1989): 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"