Dan Russ is the Director of the Center for Christian Studies and a faculty member at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He has been a youth minister, Young Life leader, and has taught high school and college courses. From 2002-2003 he was the Executive Director of Christians in the Visual Arts at Gordon College, where the CIVA Office is housed. Prior to joining the faculty at Gordon, Dan was Headmaster of Trinity Christian Academy, a K-12 College from 1994-2002. He is a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, where he served on the faculty and as Managing Director. He is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum, where he also serves as editor of Provocations, TTF online journal. He has four grown children and lives with his wife Kathy in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Thursday, July 31st
Mercy St. Cafe, 10:15-11:30am
Flesh-and-Blood Jesus: Learning to be Fully Human from the Son of Man
I invite you to enter into the humanity of Jesus Christ and to allow his humanity to enter you, not as an abstract idea but through the incidents and encounters of his life as he lived it out over 33 years and beyond. We will reflect on his life from birth through maturity, suffering and death, to resurrection because that is the way he lived it, like us, one day at a time. We undertake these reflections because he is the way, the truth, and the life--a truly human life. We undertake these reflections because we can only fully embrace Jesus as Lord if we embrace him as the Son of Man as well as the Son of God. And we undertake these reflections because he came to redeem us back to our own humanity.
I invite you to enter into the humanity of Jesus Christ and to allow his humanity to enter you, not as an abstract idea but through the incidents and encounters of his life as he lived it out over 33 years and beyond. We will reflect on his life from birth through maturity, suffering and death, to resurrection because that is the way he lived it, like us, one day at a time. We undertake these reflections because he is the way, the truth, and the life--a truly human life. We undertake these reflections because we can only fully embrace Jesus as Lord if we embrace him as the Son of Man as well as the Son of God. And we undertake these reflections because he came to redeem us back to our own humanity.