Ask a hundred people who Jesus Christ is and you are likely to get a hundred answers.  As Christians we use words like Son of God, Savior and Lord.  Others say things like, the founder of Christianity and great teacher or they might give you a blank stare.  Regardless, it is hard for any serious student of history to deny that he is one of the most influential people ever to live.  But who was he?  A few years ago some really bright people decided to figure out who was the real Jesus.  They called it “the quest for the historical Jesus”.  Sounds noble.  The Jesus they found looked like them, thought like them and always agreed with them.  How convenient.  Fact is, whenever we try to define Jesus Christ apart from the Bible he always starts to look like us.  That’s what motivates this sermon series.  Over the next several months we are going to spend time in one of official biographies of Jesus, the book of Luke.  From December to May we are going to get to know him for who he really is from the point of view of those who knew him.