Shock and Awe

In his Pentecost 5 sermon Clay attempts to show you Jesus before the Trinity made him a tribal God. His premise is that theism deprives us of the abundant life Jesus sought to offer us. "While it is my deepest desire to show you Jesus, it is an impossible task in one sermon. To do so, I first have to scrape away countless coats of ecclesiastical dogmatic varnish concealing him. Ah, what I wouldn’t give to have the luxury of introducing you to Jesus before he was welded permanently to that fourth century understanding of the Godhead we call the Trinity. Is it still possible to see him as a man who revealed the nature of God instead of being God, disguised as a man, on a heavenly rescue mission? Is the image of God dying on a cross to atone for our sinful and weak nature too ingrained to show you the Jesus I know?" Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=327&id=737