Professor Jesus. You are the most distinguishably adaptive person in the universe. I used to imagine you living in 21st century North America with a white robe and sandals. Now I know better. I see the way you and your Father have worked with people throughout the entirety of the Scriptures. A cross cultural sensei. Diplomatic genius. You are more adaptable than the most gifted Hollywood actors who can take polar opposite roles on different stages. You're better at this art than Russell Crowe. You are exceptionally malleable in genre yet unswervingly firm in content. You are remarkably flexible in cuisine style yet uncompromising in the meat of what you represent. You bend but don't break. Your capacity to blend in while sticking out simultaneously is of an unheard of calibre.
Professor Jesus. What would you be like if you were in North America walking, living, and breathing the air of the 21st century? You wouldn't behave and dress like a Middle Eastern man, that's for sure. You would not be inflexible, unchangeable, and rigidly dull in form. I'm not sure if you'd stay in a 5 star luxury hotel and use the Jaccuzi, but you'd drop the robe quickly either way. You'd dress differently, to the point where you wouldn't get out-of-style attention on the streets. You'd take on our slang, in a very organic and spontaneous way. The colloquial phrases we say here would be embedded into your soul so deeply that they would come out on knee-jerk reaction to things. You wouldn't say colloquial slang mechanically with an ESL delivery. Your socially conditioned body language would not make you awkward in the crowd, because it would be adjusted and calibrated to this environment. You'd do all this without being uncompromising in your embodied kingdom message. Your spirit and soul would powerfully capture the reality of the kingdom in a way that gets supernatural attention while not being unnecessarily weird in the natural realm. You'd capture the atmosphere's spotlight in terms of people's souls being violently pulled in towards a supernatural reality in you while your natural body language, speech, and fashion would remain blended in to the social context and hence remain invisible.
Professor Jesus. You are my master and my sensei. And one of the characteristics of you is that you are exceptionally adaptable. More than the planet's most gifted social chameleons. As I imagine you being so capably adaptable to all sorts of audiences, it's so magnetically attractive. You are so cool. Smooth yet pure. That's just purely smooth man.
Professor Jesus. How would you conduct yourself as a graduate student studying in a functionally secular university in the 21st century? In a classroom, how would you think? How would you feel? How would your body language be like in an atmosphere of academia? What flavour of consciousness would you season your mind with in order to fit in and blend in this environment? How would you adjust and cultivate your wavelength of thinking to perfectly adapt to the scholarly culture of western universities? How would you conduct yourself socially? How would you challenge your professors? How would you disagree with other students in a discussion in a way that makes everyone still feel unconditionally loved and valued? How would you not be dull? How would you mentally launch intellectual fireworks in a discussion to make it more engaging? How would you pour colour into colourless content that is being learned? How would you continually shift the framing of your questions and statements to accommodate to the texture of the ever evolving discussion? How would you intellectually bounce ideas off of others if a spontaneously engaging discussion emerged which surprisingly gained momentum? How would you do that while trying to simultaneously enhance and intertwine relational intimacy with intellectual intimacy with classmates through the discussion so that they can encounter God's love through the relational dimension of the intellectual discussion? How would you weave threads of kingdom thinking seamlessly into the fabric of a secular texture so that the thread would get attention without the needle getting any? How would you open yourself up to and count on the kingdom gently invading your thoughts suddenly with a wisdom that is beyond this world? When you detect such foreignly beautiful thoughts that are not yours and try to insert this kingdom thinking into the classroom, how would you give the supernaturally foreign thoughts a conversational visa to enter into the native homeland of the secular discussion? How would you stay mentally open to hop on and stay on spontaneously supernatural trains of thought that suddenly appear and take off from the train station of normal/natural human cognition? All without losing the direction that the class is moving? How would you allow yourself to be used by God to bring attention to the supernatural kingdom within you while not letting your natural human elements unnecessarily steal any attention due to them being invisibly blended in?
Professor Jesus. Teach me. I am your student.
