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use his own superhuman powers to attract attention, it would appear that we are expected to find means other than the book's reflected glory as our personal contribution to further the work initiated by Jesus.
Jesus' fifth problem was in deciding what method to employ in the proclamation and establishment of the kingdom. After considering the available alternatives he decided upon leaving it entirely in the hands of his Father to direct his daily comings and goings and what would eventuate. And to his followers he provided this exhortation:
"Do you not understand...that you are to represent me in the world and in the proclamation of the kingdom even as I now represent my Father who is in heaven?"
And surely we are left with absolutely no doubt as to how Jesus represented his Father.
"There was just one motive in Jesus' post-baptismal life on Urantia and that was a better and truer revelation of his Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God, the way of faith and love. Ever his exhortation to the apostles was: 'Go seek for the sinners; find the downhearted and comfort the anxious.' (1543)
"Proclaim the gospel of the kingdom and portray my revelation of the Father in heaven," Jesus said, "but do not be misled into bypaths of creating legends and building a cult having to do with beliefs and teachings about my beliefs and teachings." (1543)
Thus if we simply promote the The Urantia Book and even its teachings, it appears that this is not what Jesus really wants from us. So what is left?
The only possible answer seems to be that we, as individuals, are asked to live personal lives of individual service just as Jesus lived his--in a way that reflects and reveals the actual nature of God, our heavenly Father. Nothing else will do. Perhaps that is why we are informed:
"To 'follow Jesus' means to personally share his religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master's life of unselfish service for man. One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it." (2090)
If we are still unsure of what there is about the nature of God for us to attempt to reveal in our own lives, in his book, Jesus, a New Vision, Marcus Borg states the God of Jesus was a gracious and compassionate God. Compassion in Hebrew, he says, derives from the plural of "womb," hence has the connotation of wombishness. Thus Jesus' God was generous, nurturing, nourishing, life-giving.
Jesus said, "My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth. You who know these truths must yield the increase of the fruits of the spirit and manifest a growing devotion to the unselfish service of your fellow servants. And remember that, inasmuch as you minister to one of the least of my brethren, you have done this service to me. (1917)
"And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace." (2054)
There was a sixth decision:
"On the last day of this memorable isolation, before starting down the mountain to join John and his disciples, the Son of Man made his final decision. And this decision he communicated to the Personalized Adjuster in these words, 'And in all other matters, as in these now of decision-record, I pledge you I will be subject to the will of my Father.' And when he had thus spoken, he journeyed down the mountain. And his face shone with the glory of spiritual victory and moral achievement." (1523)
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