“Jesus wept.” This phrase captures the humanness of Jesus’ experience.<\/p>\n
When he received the news\u00a0about his friend Lazarus,\u00a0Jesus was involved. He was vested\u00a0in the relationship.\u00a0He felt\u00a0the hurt and the pain surrounding the death of\u00a0his friend.<\/p>\n
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch observe in The Shaping of Things to Come<\/em> that Jesus was an “authentic human being” who engaged his world. In fact, they write,<\/p>\n \u00a0Jesus was Jesus precisely because of Mary and Joseph, his twelve disciples, the poor to whom he ministered, and all the others who interacted with him … He was changed in some way by all those he came in contact with in precisely the same way that we are changed by our relationships — for good or ill. To be a genuine human being, Jesus must have had such [interactions]… If this is not true, then his humanity was a sham (The Shaping of Things to Come<\/em>, 36).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jesus was moved by his friends’ experience. He wept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Jesus wept.” This phrase captures the humanness of Jesus’ experience. When he received the news\u00a0about his friend Lazarus,\u00a0Jesus was involved. He was vested\u00a0in the relationship.\u00a0He felt\u00a0the hurt and the pain surrounding the death of\u00a0his friend. Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch observe in The Shaping of Things to Come that Jesus was an “authentic human being” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}