“Paul’s first question intrigues me. He asked of Jesus, ‘Who are you?’ not ‘What are you doing?’ or ‘Why are you talking to me?’ ‘Who’ is a relational question, a question that opens us toward companionship, friendship, and perhaps even love…To know ‘who’ is an invitation into a relationship that can – if we let it – change us, often sending our lives onto a completely unexpected path.”
–Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Way, and Presence (Harper Collins, 2021), p.xxv
