I linked to this Pagan Christs site once before, but was just revisiting it and found a great paragraph that I love:

“Jesus was new — in the same way the first Honda Accord was a new car and the first Mountain Dew was a new soda pop. But you know and I know, without, God help us, some associate professor of Cars and Sodas to tell us, that Honda didn’t invent the car when they built the Accord and Mountain didn’t invent soda when they made Dew. The Accord and Dew were new arrangements of old ideas. Some new stuff, but mostly old. “

That kind of makes me want to go out and get a Mountain Dew…