There's been a few moments in my life where I had this overwhelming sense that I didn't know Jesus anywhere near as well as I should. The most recent of those experiences for me was while I was developing DECISION POINT, a confirmation program for Dynamic Catholic. Me and a team worked on it for almost five years. And you've got this sense that you want to help these young people develop an understanding of the genius of Catholicism, and you know that giving them a personal encounter with Jesus is absolutely essential. I really asked myself, "Okay. Who is Jesus? And what does he want to say to us here, now, today? And what's he saying to me?" And Rediscover Jesus really emerged out of that experience.
If you sit down and you write down everything you know about Jesus, you'd be amazed how quickly you run out of things to write, even though we've been hearing about him our whole lives, in all sorts of different environments, in all sorts of different contexts, some of them good, some of them bad. But when you really sit down and think about it, how well do you know Jesus? And a huge part, maybe the biggest part, of rediscovering Jesus is understanding that God, the Father, wants you to have an incredible relationship with Jesus. He wants you to have a deep, dynamic relationship with Jesus. And that's the invitation.
