In Our Image
I've been thinking lately about how we as humans have made God in our own image and how backwards and dangerous that is. We were created in HIS image. What makes us to be in His image is multi faceted and in some ways mysterious but for whatever reason throughout time mankind insists on making God in our image, putting Him in a box. I think when it comes to who we think Jesus was and is, we tend to see Him through various lenses. Be it privilege or poverty, democrat or republican, conservative or liberal...we hold these lenses up to the person of Jesus and it influences how we live as Christians. We like to think Jesus would never do ____ or say ____, therefore neither should I and neither should YOU! I think that sometimes we conveniently forget who He was hanging out with most of the time in His ministry because it makes us uncomfortable. Sure Jesus spent time with teachers of the Law, those high in society and the wealthy; but He spent just as m...