"During Jesus’ ministry, he often challenged people’s long-held beliefs and presuppositions. He didn’t fit into their neat theological constructs or comfortable categories. They couldn’t, and sometimes wouldn’t, see beyond their belief systems. As a result, they missed him. Two thousand years later, we’re often still uncomfortable with a God we cannot fully comprehend. But a God we can understand is a God we can control, and a God we can control is a God who is powerless to save.

How do we reconcile a Savior who embodies such complexity—one who brings both peace and conflict? Who offers an easy yoke and demands we take up our cross? Who zealously overturned tables in the temple and also humbly knelt to wash the feet of those who would abandon and betray him? Who forgives sin and also calls us to obedience? Who is meek and mild and also mighty and fearsome? Who is friend and brother and also Lord and King?"