CHRIST AS THE THREATENING RIVAL
The same evil passion influences our own contemporary attitudes to Jesus. He is still, as C. S. Lewis called him, “a transcendental interferer.” We resent his instrusions into our privacy, his demand for our homage, his expectation of our obedience. Why can’t he mind his own business, we ask petulantly, and leave us alone? To which he instantly replies that we are his business and that he will never leave us alone. So we too perceive him as a threatening rival who never leave us alone… who disturbs our peace, upsets our status quo, undermines our authority and diminishes our self-respect. We too want to get rid of him. From The Cross of Christ, John R. W. Stott, pg. 54
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