The Life and Death of Jesus

The Life and Death of Jesus

In this part of my coursework, I will attempt to show how Jesus’

example of self-sacrifice, suffering, death and resurrection is still

important to Christians today, and should be included in every good

Christians life.

Firstly, when I say ‘…self-sacrifice, suffering, death and

resurrection…included in every good Christians life…’ I don’t mean

that every Christian should run in front of a train to prove their

belief in God, no, I merely meant that, for instance, if there is a

charity money collection going around, you should put that little bit

of money you reserved for, say, a chocolate bar, in instead of

spending it on something you can easily go on with without. This is

what I believe all Christians can do, and, if they did, it would make

the world a generally better place, immediately showing that even the

smallest example of self-sacrifice can prove to be a very Christian

thing to do.

If one was to look in the Bible and read through the entire book of

Mark, one would see that there are dozens upon dozens of examples and

teachings from Jesus showing the need and use of self-sacrifice. The

most prominent and best examples are:

· Mark 10: 17-22 (The Rich Man), In which a rich man runs up to Jesus

and says that he has followed his preaching since he was very small.

He then asks Jesus what can he do extra to make sure that he is doing

the right thing to get to heaven. Jesus then replies that he is to

sell practically all of his possessions and give the money to the poor

so that they can have food and water. This, however makes the rich man

sad as he has worked all his life for his riches,...

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...on’t believe in is

watching me in a way that I find impossible to understand, and when I

die a part of me that I don’t think exists will go to a place that I

don’t think is real and a day that I don’t think exists will come and

the dead will be resurrected which I do not think is possible.

So, to conclude, self sacrifice can be in many forms and in many

different difficulties, yet, even the least enthusiastic Christian is

fully capable of helping one and other, be it holding a ladder for

someone for a couple of minutes, or just asking someone if they think

what you are to do is sensible beforehand, we should be ready to give

up some of our time and/or effort for others as, when we are in the

same situation, we would want them to help, and by doing this, we are

nearing Jesus dream of a perfect world of peace on Earth.