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The Central Focus on Jesus

Obviously there would be no New Testament if it were not for Jesus. Jesus left us no writings. His life and ministry, and what He said they meant, were preserved and passed on by His key followers. They spread this message far and wide in spite of horrendous persecution. And their teaching was not set forth as just one more religious option among the dozens circulating in the the multi-cultural Roman empire. The Gospel of Christ was boldly announced as God's ultimate word, God's manifestation in human flesh. Christ, they said, came to show us what God was like, how He would save us, and how we should live. For many, then as well as now, the whole idea was absurd. For some it sounds almost too good to be true. For others it is too true to be good. For those who believed, in countless cases-the record is indis-putable-this message completely changed their lives.

So Jesus is set forth by the New Testament writers not as just a great religious leader. He is seen as the personal fulfillment of centuries of promise, prophecy, waiting, and hope that reverberate throughout the Hebrew scriptures, a collection whose last book was written some 400 years before Jesus was even born. And the New Testament also clearly and repeatedly speaks of Jesus coming again a second time to establish a kingdom of justice, love, truth and righteousness.

The Jesus of the New Testament is seen offering an invitation to every human being on the face of the earth. The invitation is to repent of our sins, turn to God, accept Christ's death on the cross in our place for our sins, turn to Him in love and faith, make Him central in our lives, and seek His strength to live our lives in a way that will please God.

Jesus seen as fulfillment of the promises