Can Christians change Jesus?

Reflection

Jesus was a Jew.  He was born and raised a Jew.  He observed all the obligations of a Jew.  When he began his ministry, he only ministered to Jews.  After his ascension and empowerment of his followers to continue what he had started, the natural result was a ministry only to Jews.  Then as people like Paul of Tarsus tried to bring Jesus to Gentiles, he knew following Jesus was synonymous with being a Jew. But there was a problem. Gentiles might like Jesus but they didn’t like circumcision.  So, Christianity faced the question of whether they could move in another direction from what Christ said and did.  Can Christians change Jesus?

Scripture

Matthew  Chapter: 15

 
²¹Jesus left and went to the territory near the cities of Tyre and Sidon.   ²²Suddenly a Canaanite woman^c from there came out shouting, "Lord and Son of David^d , have pity on me! My daughter is full of demons."  ²³Jesus did not say a word. But the woman kept following along and shouting, so his disciples came up and asked him to send her away. 
²⁴Jesus said, "I was sent only to the people of Israel! They are like a flock of lost sheep." 
²⁵The woman came closer. Then she knelt down and begged, "Please help me, Lord!" 
²⁶Jesus replied, "It isn't right to take food away from children and feed it to dogs."^e 
27"Lord, that's true," the woman said, "but even dogs get the crumbs that fall from their owner's table." 
²⁸Jesus answered, "Dear woman, you really do have a lot of faith, and you will be given what you want." At that moment her daughter was healed. 

Prayer

Lord, as the Church moved ahead after your ascension it had to face the need to make some changes.  Your followers prayed to the Holy Spirit and accepted a change.  Help me to be open to growing change in my life. Amen