Jesus Christ

[James_Lai]

Hello.
What is your personal experience with Jesus Christ? Not theological knowledge about Him, but day by day experience of Him.
Thank you!

 

[Clare73]

Hello.
What is your personal experience with Jesus Christ? Not theological knowledge about Him, but day by day experience of Him.
Thank you!

My rescuer, savior and intimate connection with the Father in his Spirit.

 

[Tolworth John]

Depends what you mean by daily experience?

Every day I a aware of my need for forgiveness and am grateful for both it and the new day, but this does not involve any mystic happening .

 

[timf]

The two conditions for Christians are being in Christ and having Christ in us.

1. It is difficult to sin and it is not enjoyable.
2. An instant and deep connection with other Christians.
3. A thirst to learn more of the bible.
4. An increasing disconnection from the world and its systems.
5. An increasing resonance with truth.

 

[James_Lai]

My rescuer, savior and intimate connection with the Father in his Spirit.

Not what I asked, but thank you!

 

[James_Lai]

Depends what you mean by daily experience?

Every day I a aware of my need for forgiveness and am grateful for both it and the new day, but this does not involve any mystic happening .

I don’t know what it is for you, if anything. What I mean is, how do you experience Him in your life? Your knowing/communicating with/hearing from/feeling of Jesus Christ etc things of that kind. If He’s alive and “surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

 

[James_Lai]

The two conditions for Christians are being in Christ and having Christ in us.

1. It is difficult to sin and it is not enjoyable.
2. An instant and deep connection with other Christians.
3. A thirst to learn more of the bible.
4. An increasing disconnection from the world and its systems.
5. An increasing resonance with truth.

Thank you, but these are more the effects of Christ being present in you and in your life, the fruits. Which is absolutely relevant to my question, but it’s not exactly what I was asking about.

Your own personal and direct experience of Jesus Christ in your walk with Him

 

[Clare73]

Not what I asked, but thank you!

My intimate connection with the Father through Jesus Christ is not experiencing him?
Contrare. . .

 

[James_Lai]

My intimate connection with the Father through Jesus Christ is not experiencing him?
Contrare. . .

No, my question was probably not clear. You gave a definition of how you experience Him, and your answer is of great value to me.

I was more after more concrete day by day experiences… Not how you see or understand Him, but in what way He is a reality for you daily as He’s a person, not an abstract idea.

 

[Clare73]

No, my question was probably not clear. You gave a definition of how you experience Him, and your answer is of great value to me.

I was more after more concrete day by day experiences… Not how you see or understand Him, but in what way He is a reality for you daily as He’s a person, not an abstract idea.

Rescuer and Redeemer are real experiences to me. Nor do I need "experiences" to make him real to me... that is the Holy Spirit's work, and he does a very thorough job of that.

 

[James_Lai]

Rescuer and Redeemer are real experiences to me. Nor do I need "experiences" to make him real to me... the Holy Spirit does a very thorough job of that.

Do I understand it correctly that you see Jesus Christ more distant and not directly involved with your life (but extremely important for your salvation), the Holy Spirit being more of the day by day direct agent in your life? How do you see the latter evident experientially in your Christian walk?

 

[Martinius]

Hello.
What is your personal experience with Jesus Christ? Not theological knowledge about Him, but day by day experience of Him.
Thank you!

If we understand that Jesus IS present among us, and within us, that what we do to "the least of these" we do to Him, then we should experience Jesus in our daily lives. However, and this is a BIG however, one needs to be on the alert for those experiences. I have the "feeling" that God places opportunities and challenges before us quite frequently. One of those opportunities is to meet Jesus face to face.

Let's say you're driving down the road and you see an elderly person standing beside their car, which has a flat tire. Do you drive past, figuring they'll call AAA or that some other person will help them, or do you stop and assist them? If you drive by, you just ignored Jesus (see paragraph #1 above). That is an opportunity that God can place before you, to test your true faith.

There have been times when I have "felt" the presence of something or someone outside of my temporal environment. At times of stress or danger, difficult times. I have asked for guidance or for strength and felt an inexplicable calmness. I can't prove that Jesus was there at that moment, but I can believe it.

I don't need to "believe in" a Jesus of another distant time, or who is in another plane of existence, far from me. If I understand correctly what he has told us, then I know he is here, in my world, in the present. Anyone can meet him, in the here and now, if they open their minds and hearts to that possibility.

 

[Clare73]

Do I understand it correctly that you see Jesus Christ more distant and not directly involved with your life (but extremely important for your salvation), the Holy Spirit being more of the day by day direct agent in your life? How do you see the latter evident experientially in your Christian walk?

I don't translate Jesus into my outward physical experiences.
I rely on Christ as my Savior as I realize how sinful I am, specifically.
I can't change the sin that is done, I can only trust and rest in its remission because of him.

My Christian experience is of the Father in Christ by his Holy Spirit.
All three are pretty much present to me in all of it.

I see the Holy Spirit directing, illuminating, enabling, moving, keeping me in faithfulness and obedience.

What are your insights here?

 

[ViaCrucis]

The historic confession of the Church is that Jesus Christ is Personally present in Word and Sacrament. Christ is there, in His Person, in His Word, and He is there, in His Person, in His Sacraments.

So that the baptized Christian has been washed and clothed with Christ, hears Christ's word, and partakes of Christ's own body and blood in His Supper, etc.

Daily I encounter Christ in His Word. Whenever I read or hear the Scriptures, whenever His commandments are preached, whenever His Gospel is proclaimed. He is there always in the reality of my baptism. He is there in His Supper, the Holy Eucharist.

Jesus Christ, in the fullness of Himself--the full God-Man--begotten of the Father before all ages, and born of Mary. He is present and real in the Means of God's grace. Present also through His Spirit who dwells in all the redeemed.

So by God's grace His Son dwells in me, and I in Him.

It's not about mystical experiences of the Divine. But about the real and living Jesus Christ. The Incarnate God-Man, the Son of God and the Son of Mary. Who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. Who on the third day rose again. Who ascended into the heavens, where He sits and reigns at the right hand of the Father. He who will come again as judge of the living and the dead, who will raise all flesh, and whose kingdom shall never cease. This is the Jesus who is Lord and Head of His Church, and who is present for and with His Church in the sacred ministry given to the Church: in Word and Sacrament; and through His Church present in, with, and for the whole world.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I experience Jesus Christ by suffering some of the things he suffered.

 

[Martinius]

I experience Jesus Christ by suffering some of the things he suffered.

I like this. Which to me means that the poorest among us, those suffering the most, those who are oppressed, those without a home or meaningful work, or without enough food, should be experiencing Jesus the most.

Conversely, the very well off, the comfortable, those with an abundance of food and material things, are experiencing Him the least.

All of which conforms to what Jesus said in the Gospels.

 

[Clare73]

I like this. Which to me means that the poorest among us, those suffering the most, those who are oppressed, those without a home or meaningful work, or without enough food,
should be experiencing Jesus the most.

Not necessarily. . .that's a faith and heart issue.

Conversely, the very well off, the comfortable, those with an abundance of food and material things, are experiencing Him the least.

Same as above.

All of which conforms to what Jesus said in the Gospels.

Is what he said either all exclusive or all inclusive?