Jesus Christ: A Integral Mythical Re-telling

Following the words “I am the way and the truth”, the Lord
continues with “and the life.” We are mindful of the fact that life
issues forth spontaneously in work, but work cannot be a substitute
for life. We ought to be crystal clear here that work is not life—for
life is effortless, life is Christ himself. How people toil to be
Christians! How we are wearied through daily exertion. Most severe
are these doctrines, for they demand of us to be humble, gentle,
forgiving, and long-suffering. They  literally wear  us out. Many
concede that to be a Christian is a difficult task. This is especially
true with young believers. The more they try, the more difficult it
becomes. Upon having tried for a length of time, they still bear no
resemblance to a Christian. Brothers and sisters, if Christ is not life,
we have to do the work; but if He is life, then we do not need to
struggle. Repeatedly we say that life is Christ himself, and work can
never substitute life.
There is a grave mistake pervasive among God’s children. Many
regard life as something which they must do in their own strength, or
else there is no life. What all of us should realize is, that if there is
life there will not be the slightest need for our own doing, but that
life will naturally flow. Consider for a moment how our eyes see and
our ears hear. Our eyes see most naturally and  our ears hear
spontaneously because there is life in them. We must be clear on this
point: life flows naturally into work, but work is never a substitute
for life. Sometimes work proves instead the absence of life or the
weakness of life. Life will issue in good morals, but good morals are
no stand-in for life. For example, a brother may be very gentle,
moderate and reserved. Someone  will praise him, saying, “This
brother’s life is not bad.” No,  he has used the wrong terminology.
For the Lord says, “I am the life.” However gentle, moderate and
reserved this brother may be, if these do not come from Christ they
are not reckoned as life. It is perfectly true to say this man has a good
temper or he rarely causes any trouble or he always treats people
kindly and never quarrels; but it cannot be said of him that he has a
rich spiritual life. If these things are natural to him they are not life,
for they do not come from Christ.
Other people cherish another thought. They conclude that life is
power. To have the Lord as our life means to be given power by Him
to do good. Nevertheless, God shows us that our power is not a thing;
it is simply Christ. Our power is not the strength to do things; rather,
it is a Person. Life to us is not only power but also a Person. It is
Christ who manifests himself in us, instead of our using Christ to
display our good works.
Once a brother attended a meeting at a certain place. He was
asked by an elderly Christian, “Why do you go there to meet?”
“Because there is life,” he answered. The elderly man said, “True, as
regards enthusiasm, our meetings are not comparable to that place.”
“You do not understand,”  replied this brother. “That place does not
have a frenzied atmosphere at all.” “What do you mean?” asked the
elderly brother. “How can there be life if it is not fervid?” Answered
the younger brother, “There is nothing at all noisy about it, and yet
there is life. For life does not necessarily have to be emotionally
exciting or enthusiastic or fervid or loud.” Then the elderly man
philosophized, “Perhaps young people like fervor, but I prefer
thoughtful words. When I hear profound words, I meet life. I think
this indeed is life.” But the young  brother said in return, “I have
many times heard the deep words which you refer to, but I have not
met any life.” Dear people, from the conversation of these two men,
we may see that life is neither emotional excitement nor thoughtful
words. Words of wisdom, clever sayings, logical arguments and
thoughtful dissertations are not necessarily life.
Not surprisingly, some will inquire, “How strange that life is
neither fervor nor elevating thought. Where, then, can we find life?
What is life after all?” We confess we do not have a better way to
express this matter of holding forth life. All we can say is that it is
something deeper than emotion and more profound than thought.
And once one meets it, he will instantly be quickened within. This
something is called life.
What is life? Life is more profound than thought; thought never
surpasses life. It also is deeper than emotion; emotion is superficial
in comparison with life. Whether thought or emotion, it is relatively
external. What, then, is life? The Lord Jesus declared: “I am the life.”
We should not hastily conclude that we have met life when all we
meet is a kind of hot atmosphere, such as a so-called spiritually hot
atmosphere. We should ask instead, whence does such atmosphere
arise? Plenty of experiences confirm to us that many who are skillful
in creating hot atmosphere know  very little of the Lord, many
excitable persons are quite lacking in the knowledge of the Lord.
Only Christ is life, the rest is not.
We need to learn the lesson of knowing life. For life depends not
on how enthusiastic is our emotion or on how manifold is our
thought; it rests exclusively on whether the Lord has manifested His
own self. There is therefore nothing more important than to know the
Lord. As we are knowing Him, we are touching life. We ought to see
before God the meaning of Christ our life. Those who are easily
excitable or especially clever  are not necessarily people who know
the Lord. Knowing Him requires a  spiritual seeing.  Such seeing is
life and it transforms us. If we know the Lord as our life, we realize
the utter futility of all natural efforts in spiritual matters. Hence we
look to Him alone.
When we first believed in the Lord, we did not realize what
looking to Him truly meant. But gradually we learn increasingly to
look to Him, having recognized that everything depends upon Christ,
and not upon us. In the beginning of our Christian walk we desired to
possess one thing after another; we could not  trust Him for
everything. After we learned a bit more, however, we received some
understanding as to the necessity of trusting Him: not in the sense of
believing Him to grant us item after item, but in the sense of trusting
Him to do what we are unable to do by ourselves. When we first
became a Christian, we were inclined to do everything ourselves,
fearing lest nothing would ever be done or matters would fall to
pieces if we did not do them. Hence we were working all the time.
Later, in having seen the Lord to be our life, we know that all is of
Christ and not of us. Consequently, we learn to rest and to look to
Him.
Let us keep in mind that instead of giving us one object after
another, God gives His Son to us. Because of this, we can always lift
up our hearts and look to the Lord, saying, “Lord, you are my way;
Lord, you are my truth; Lord, you are my life. It is you, Lord, who is
related to me, not your things.” May we ask God to give us grace that
we may see Christ in all spiritual things. Day by day we are
convinced that aside from Christ there is no way, nor truth, nor life.
How easily we make  things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot
atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider strong
emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not
life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life.
And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us. Let us ask Him to
deliver us from the many external  and fragmentary affairs that we
may touch only Him. May we see the Lord in all things—way, truth,
and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son
of God and let Him live in us. Amen.                                        - WATCHMAN NEE -

peace&love...vern

Your response is definitely what I was looking for with regard to an integral view applied to the mythicist position.  IMO, I think the mythicist viewpoint is one of the most crucial matters affecting an Integral Christianity practice.