The Importance of Knowing What Jesus Is Like

The longer I've gone on in the Christian life, the question has become more and more important to me as this. What was and is Jesus really like? Perhaps you know the pop song, Passional Jesus, which was written and recorded by the band Depeche Mode, I think sometime in the late 1980s. It's actually about how one other person can be a Jesus-like figure to another, someone to hear your prayers and to be there for you. That's who your own personal Jesus is, not actually the Jesus of the Christian faith. And since the Christian life involves our progressive transformation to be more and more like Jesus, it's essential that we do know what he