Jesus? As the Christian church in America continues to roil with political fulmination, a group of clergy from a wide span of Catholic and Protestant tradition developed a video in which they urged its listeners to think anew about what invoking the name of Jesus really means.
(View the link: https://sojo.net/articles/what-about-jesus)
Christians can certainly disagree on political issues and positions. Indeed, they should: we do not wish to be robots! When those debating invoke the name of Jesus, however, we have problems: which Jesus are we talking about? Or as Rod Steiger, playing Pontius Pilate in Franco Zefferelli's movie Jesus of Nazereth, asked Jesus' accusers, "Whose Jesus?" [are you bringing before me]
It's a very good question. Whose Jesus, indeed?
Jesus is far more than a political football. Ultimately, he is the infinite and, we should always realize, not fully fathomable, God.
Be careful, exceedingly careful, in how you use him.
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