What do you imagine when you think about Jesus?
Do you think of a soft-looking man holding a lamb? Or maybe hugging a child? Perhaps he is healing sick people, or offering bread to the hungry? Does he have a halo? Is he glowing?
Is he wielding a whip kicking people out of God's temple? What about standing in front of a crowd telling them they must drink his blood and eat his flesh? Or maybe he is busy stepping over and ignoring hundreds of sick people so he can heal one specific person?
Jesus did all of these things, and a lot of what he did does not necessarily fit in with our "mental image" of Jesus. Throughout this series, we are going to examine some of the most confusing, controversial, and frustrating things that Jesus said and did so as to understand who he really was, because he was, in fact, the most interesting man in the world.