What would Jesus have been like in high school?

“All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.”  Luke 15:1

“Sinners” found Jesus approachable and interesting to listen to.  They didn’t feel condemned or bored.  They were drawn to Him, which meant they liked Him.  According to scripture, “Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”  As He was then, He is and would be now.  I imagined this in relation to a conversation I had a long time ago.

I once asked a group of teenagers at church what they thought Jesus would be like if He were a high school student.  They said they thought He’d be "lame"  I asked why, and pointed out that Jesus was, and is, “perfect.”  I made it clear that for a teenaged Jesus to be “lame” would mean He some how lacked social skills, and was therefore imperfect.  So He would not have been lame, or imperfect.  He would be a good student, especially his behavior.  He would either go unnoticed, not drawing attention to Himself in any good or bad way, or He would be a popular student in the sense of being a leader and nonconformist.  He wouldn’t be especially attractive or unattractive physically; in this way He’d go unnoticed.  Yet He would definitely be interesting, whether He was a student leader or whether He simply blended in.  Anyone who knew Him wouldn’t find Him “lame.”

Rejected teenagers would be drawn to Him.  Teachers would respect Him, unless they were hypocrites or self-righteous.  These would fear and hate Him.

But no one would think Jesus was “lame,” in His day or in ours.
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Lame:  just plain stupid, un-original, or lifeless.  Urban Dictionary