JESUS
UNTAMED

Topics: Convictions; Cross; Knowing God; Truth; Untamed Christ

References: Matthew 23; Mark 11:12–18

As I studied the life of Christ, one impression about Jesus struck me more forcefully than any other. We have tamed him.

The Jesus I learned about as a child was sweet and inoffensive, the kind of person whose lap you’d want to climb on. Mister Rogers with a beard. Indeed, Jesus did have qualities of gentleness and compassion that attracted little children. Mister Rogers, however, he assuredly was not. Not even the Romans would have crucified Mister Rogers.

—Philip Yancey, from the video The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan, 1998)