Jesus Died for Your Sins.

 It's funny how I've always put certain nuances around the death of Christ but left out so many others. How little I've actually reflected over the realities of Jesus's execution. Why it happened politically, naturally, humanly. How when people are executed today for their radical actions (Google; Muammar Gaddafi, Joseph Kony, Saddam Husssein) the mob mentality against these people are exactly as it was against Jesus.

What the heck could he have done to promote the same kind of reaction as Joseph Koney!?

Remember Gaddafi and Bin Laden? How happy people were when he was finally dead. People felt like that after Jesus died...

The person I'm suppose to modeling my life after was put to death for his insurrection against the established order.

Dang.

Yes he died for supernatural reasons too, but those were played out through very earthly actions. It never would have happened if he hadn't been challenging the norm. If he didn't force people to change the way they saw the world, each other and God. If he didn't stir up rebellion against the religious order in power... I'd be going to hell.

Thankfully, Jesus was a rebel. Thankfully, Jesus didn't just memorize the Torah and became the same kind of  Rabbi as everyone else... Thankfully he was ok with being thought of as a drunkard, a bastard and a blasphemer. Thankfully Jesus lived a life of sedition and rebellion so that he was also able to die for my sins.

Prayer:

Is the lifestyle you lived still needed today? Was the goal of your life accomplished? Are we the church that you tried to create? Or are we still not getting it all... I feel like we're still missing so much.