The great madness/mystery at the center of Christianity is that Jesus is both fully Man and fully God. My experience has been that the tension of this madness/mystery is so great that no person or congregation individually or collectively in practice can hold both concepts in their head/heads at the same time for long. rather what happens is that in practice individually and as a group christians lurch back and forth first on one track–Jesus is fully God– for a time and then on another track –Jesus is fully Man–for a time. the job of a wise christian leader is to recognize which track the group is going and let it go until it loses its power to reveal the group and individuals to themselves and then shift to the other track.

a good measure of the speed of change is how frequently you have to shift back and forth.