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Leighton Ford’s description of Jesus:
The most spectacular cross-cultural leadership in the history of humanity took place when the Son of God became a first-century Galilean Jew. In that identification he renounced the status and the rights that he enjoyed as God’s Son. Among them, Jesus gave up any right to independence; he was born in a borrowed manger, preached from a borrowed boat, entered Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey, ate the Last Supper in a borrowed upper room, died on a borrowed cross and was buried in a borrowed tomb. In renouncing entitlement he exposed himself to temptation, sorrow, limitation and pain, and yet, “although Jesus identified himself completely with us, he did not lose his own identity. He remained himself.†And so his incarnation taught “identification without loss of identity.” (Transforming Leadership, 32-33)
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Nice quotation. I like the idea of identification without the loss of identity. At the same time, I think we can also say that Jesus’ identity is that he identified with us.
“[H]e was born in a borrowed manger, preached from a borrowed boat, entered Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey, ate the Last Supper in a borrowed upper room, died on a borrowed cross and was buried in a borrowed tomb.” I think we need to ask: was Jesus being incarnational or was he a mooch?