from "Your Jesus is too Safe," by Jared C. Wilson

"This is what Jesus the Prophet does. He inserts himself into our workaday lives, he invades our space and exposes our hearts. He tells us the ugly truth about ourselves, but not to shame or punish us, but to open us up, to provoke us and prompt us, to disarm our defenses and turn us - all of us, our whole selves - toward him. He dismantles our bland religion and hypothetical spirituality, he tears down our heartless theology and our faithless works. He infiltrates the very core of our existence and proclaims not our betterment or our improvement or our worthiness, but his own glory and power.
"Jesus the Prophet calls us to stop messing around, to stop living our own private lives in our own private kingdom - and he makes us reckon with his challenge. He makes us reckon with him."