The reality of Jesus - his interaction in the history of the world - as the royal and eternal Son of God, designated by God’s Spirit is the centre of gravity in the world’s reality. As Bonhoeffer proposed, the reality of God and the world are found in the same place/person. Because Jesus is the one “in whom. though whom, and for whom” the universe was made (Col.1:16), his reality forms the foundation for the reality of the world and especially, yours and mine. This is an integral aspect of the Spiritual Mindset - coming to terms with the way that Jesus displaces the importance of myself. Again, we can look to Bonhoeffer for a proposal:

[Christ] stands at the boundary of my existence and still in my place. That is an expression for the fact that I am separated from the I that I should be by an inexceedable boundary. The boundary lies between my old and new I, thus in the centre between me and me. As the boundary Christ is at the same time my recovered centre.(Christ the Centre)

This quote sounds a little weird but, basically, what Bonhoeffer is saying here is that when we are confronted with the Lord Jesus we come to understand ourselves in a different light. He is the human-being in relation to God that we should be, thus condemning us before God. Yet wonderfully, he is that human-being for us so that we can be forgiven by God and, in the Spirit, made one of God’s children. Because Jesus has won forgiveness for our sins and the hope of resurrection for us, he becomes the human being in relation to God that we will be in the new creation. At the same time, in the Spirit, the new person/self that we shall be in previewed in us from time to time and in different locations. All this means that Jesus wins for us a new sense of reality, a Spiritual authenticity that is the Mindset of the Spirit.