• Jesus is an unavoidable and deeply mysterious figure. We do not know as much about Him as we would like to know. This can make it difficult to grasp what Jesus was about. People found him confusing in His own day and the same is true today. • One major reason we have trouble understanding Jesus is that His world is strange and, to many Westerners, foreign. We need to understand the sense Jesus made in that world if we are going to make sense of Him in our own world. • The second major reason we find Jesus strange is that His God is strange to us as well. We may or may not have the same idea of God as Jesus’ idea. His immediate audience in His own time seemed to have held a view different from Him. Do we? • The third major reason we find