{"id":549,"date":"2006-03-28T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/03\/what-is-a-chris-1.html"},"modified":"2006-03-28T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T21:00:12","slug":"what-is-a-chris-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/03\/what-is-a-chris-1.html","title":{"rendered":"What is a Christian? (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I once had a conversation with Carl Ellis in which he led me through the S<strong>alvific Paradigms<\/strong> of Jesus.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>We usually want to know if someone is \u201cborn-again.\u201d<span>&nbsp; <\/span>But how many times did Jesus ask someone to become \u201cborn again?\u201d<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Only one time when he was talking to an older man, Nicodemus, who\u2019s deepest need\/desire would have been to become young again. (John 3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Then there was the woman at the well who he offered living water.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>When she realized that Jesus was the Christ, she ran into the town and told everyone about the man who \u201ctold her everything I ever did.\u201d (John 4)<span>&nbsp; <\/span>She didn\u2019t get \u201csaved\u201d by Jesus, she got \u201csaw\u201d by Jesus.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>To others he was \u201cbread\u201d and still others he was \u201clight.\u201d<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span><span>The task of the Jazz Theologian is not to get people saved necessarily&#8211;though that is a paradigm that God will use in many cases&#8211;<strong><u>rather to help people become Christians the way Christ did.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong><em>What other Salvific Paradigms to you see in the scriptures?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once had a conversation with Carl Ellis in which he led me through the Salvific Paradigms of Jesus.&nbsp; We usually want to know if someone is \u201cborn-again.\u201d&nbsp; But how many times did Jesus ask someone to become \u201cborn again?\u201d&nbsp; Only one time when he was talking to an older man, Nicodemus, who\u2019s deepest need\/desire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is a Christian? 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