Ordination Question #5

Disclaimer: Feel free to read the answers and use them for guidance. Please don't plagiarize. It's likely your BOOM knows how to use Google. That's the basic amoral reason to not copy. The moral reason is that plagiarism is lying. The more important reason is you need to answer these questions. The Board needs to know what you believe. Even more so, you need to know what you believe. 

This post contains links to all the questions.

Note: Because of plagiarism concerns I have included only the opening sentences of each answer. Good luck with your paperwork.
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5.      How do you interpret the statement, “Jesus Christ is Lord”?

 In the early church, the statement Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior was as much a political statement as it was a theological statement. The statement itself springs from the early church’s response to the Roman Empire and its Emperor (or Caesar).  In 1^st century Roman culture, Roman citizens referred to Caesar as “Lord and Savior.” Rome looked to their political and military leader as the ruler of all and the one who would save them – from defeat in war, from financial ruin, from destruction. The first Christians co-opted the phrase and altered it to proclaim, “Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior;” implying, of course, that Caesar is not. As modern Christians, we stand with the early church in proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

The statement “Jesus Christ is Lord,” means just that, Jesus is Lord – Lord of all.