Judah Smith: We Need to Rethink Who Jesus Really Is

For a lot of Christians, Jesus has somehow become both the center of the faith and strangely distant from real life.He’s often presented as serious, polished and permanently disappointed — more like a fragile religious mascot than someone who walked into chaos, shared meals with notorious people and built His inner circle out of rough-edged fishermen.Judah Smith thinks that version of Jesus is part of the problem.“Jesus has, I think, for a long time been portrayed as very serious,” Smith said. “