01402 – “It’s Not about Me”
Borg, Marcus J.

I think Jesus would have said, “It’s not about me.” During his lifetime, he deflected attention from himself. In an illuminating passage in our earliest gospel, when a man addressed him as “Good Teacher,” Jesus responded with, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”

Yet I do not think the church’s extravagant devotion to Jesus is a mistake, for the purpose of the church, of Christology, of the creed is to point us to Jesus. And then Jesus says, “It’s not about me.” He points beyond himself to God–to God’s character and passion.

This is the meaning of our Christological language and our creedal affirmations about Jesus: in this person we see the revelation of God the heart of God. He is both metaphor and sacrament of God.

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