Comments are welcome from anyone who wants to help me or others become more like Jesus - - both appreciative and respectfully constructive - whether about content or presentation.
Here is an overview of the whole projected series of nearly 400 episodes - this is the realmm in which I would like to be your guide.
A BROADER VISION OF CHRISTLIKENESS
1. Hearing Christ’s Call – come, follow, grow, run
2. Renewed in Christ’s Image – image, imitate, example, walk – introducing idea of becoming by beholding
3. Receiving Christ’s Grace – stories, parables and teachings illustrating the principle of receiving and giving
4. Entering Christ’s Story – creation fall, redemption, consummation
5. Knowing Christ’s Father – exploring what the Father gave to Jesus, and Christ’s response of obedience and prayerfulness
a. Loved – various texts
b. Chosen and called – servant Songs
c. Envisioned – - many OT passages and themes which show where Jesus got his identity,
d. Taught – Christ’s own attitude to the Old Testament
e. Resourced – Jesus and the Holy Spirit, angelic support
f. Supported – his experience of God’s presence inc the transfiguration;
g. Appreciated – his affirmation in this life and exaltation in the next.
h. United in a team – his helpers; his attitude to receiving help; 1 Corinthians 12 and the body of Christ.
i. Trusted - parable of the talents; his decisionmaking; management of time.
Christ’s response in obedience and prayer – loving God, trusting, waiting, obeying; prayer inc. Lord’s Prayer, Gethsemane, Luke 11, John 17.
6. Union with Christ’s humanity – 50 episodes - his life from birth , family life and relations, temptations, friendship, work as carpenter, baptism, death ( ie his sayings on the cross) resurrection, exaltation, present reign, conflict with the powers of darkness, and future return and our union with him in all aspects of that.
7. Cultivating Christ’s Character – 33 episodes - fear of the Lord, freedom, faith, humility, courage, steadfastness, the fruit of the Spirit, his emotions inc anger, joy, compassion, zeal, frustration; neighbour love.
8. Participating in Christ’s Ministry – 32 episodes - various encounters, the kingdom, teaching, asking and answering questions, 11 healings, reaching the least and the lost ; John 14:10-12 – the greater works?
9. Sharing Christ’s Sufferings – 12 episodes - disputes , conflicts, opposition, hostility, clashes with religious establishment.
10. Receiving Christ’s Care – 23 episodes - Peter, the disciples, Emmaus Road, Mary, Thomas, Judas, conflict resolution, confrontation & rebuke ie his willingness to confront difficult issues.
11. Submitting to Christ’s Training - 20 episodes - Luke 9-10, Matthew 10, how Jesus gave to the disciples what he had received from the Father.
12. Liberated by Christ’s wisdom – teachings and examples of dealing with money, sex and power inc. politics, encounters with power inc. Plate and the chief priests at his trial , attitude to women, marriage, lust, poverty ( 4 episodes) leadership and materialism; Luke 16 - rich man and Lazarus, unjust steward.
13. Reflecting Christ’s Life – the I Am sayings of John; Jesus as a true worshipper and one who spoke God’s Word. Worship and witness.
14. Living for Christ’s Glory – the benediction in Hebrews 13:20-21, and doxology in Jude 23-24
