If Jesus Had a Blog
I just found my new favorite blog feature series: Letters from Kamp Krusty: New Kamp Krusty Feature: “If Jesus Had a Blog” . The concept isn’t new (What if Jesus had a blog?) but it hits right on the money in so many ways. The first post is about Jesus and his interaction with the Pharisees about false religion:
Anyway, I was hanging out with some religious leaders. They got on my case for not keeping their Favorite Rules (apparently, you HAVE to wash up before dinner, in accordance with scripture.) I told them religious leaders love to have rules to make everyone else feel inadequate. They “tithe”, and stuff, but my Father doesn’t care, because He’s all about people having hearts for mercy, and justice, not the tithing rule.Didn’t fly very well. :0
Now, check out some of the comments, like the one from the music minister:
Yeah, let’s all stop tithing. Let’s stop obeying all the rules. There won’t be any pastors, and we won’t be able to pay the bills for our churches. Nice.
And how about the line from the Apostle Paul:
Almost as soon as I get a new group of Jesus-blog-followers going, and then I try to recognize the mature SERVANTS among them, they all start ranking themselves, and jostling for position and attention. Unbe-freaking-lievable.
Most of these commenters are just trying to argue with Christ so they don’t lose the ministry that’s important to them. Don’t we do the same thing today? Good stuff here.
HT: Jim
