"Leadership, says Harvard’s Ron Heifetz, is the art of
disappointing people at a rate they can stand. In the last week
of his life, Jesus exceeded the disappointment rate."
The people couldn't handle how Jesus wouldn't step up to their expectation of a physical kingdom. So they killed him for it.
That historical death of Jesus is over. But aren't we guilty of something similar? When Jesus doesn't live up to our expectations in some way, we bail too. Whether we actually lose our faith or not, we often disengage in frustration when we don't get our way.
We'd rather Jesus be our puppet, just like the people of his time on earth wanted. We have a hard time letting Jesus do it His way.
Maybe we should trust Jesus to have the best plan. That resurrection idea worked out pretty well.
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