Sunday Meditation
August 6th, 2006 | by jg3 |
Think for a minute. Get past the humor/irritation of an exquisite ironic liberal bumper sticker. What do we know about Jesus? Placed into a modern context, what would he do?
To bring him into a modern frame, we need to place him properly. If he lived in America, he definitely wouldn’t be part of the ruling elite. He wouldn’t even be in the White House on a tour. He might be a minister at a nondenominational parish in Washington state, or maybe an associate pastor running a school outside Mexico City. Was that not what you had in mind?
To get to the question above, let’s inventory the time that Jesus used force or raised his voice in anger and frustration: hmm…one. One time in the three years between when he began to publicly minister and when his message of peace and perserverence caught up to him and the folks in charge put him to death. And that one time, was in a temple. He was livid at the folks that were using the house of worship as a profit vector.
So, those of you sitting on a comfortable, padded pew in megachurches accross suburban America this morning, look down at your silicone WWJD bracelet and meditate on this. Because if there really is one God and there really is just one way to know the mind of God and if this God is an active participant in the universe and not just a hands-off creator/observer, you are in real danger.
Update: Today is the Christian holiday marking the transfiguration of Jesus.
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