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<\/a><\/p>\nSunday morning sermons, Bible studies, personal devotions, they\u2019re all a waste of time.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because these sorts of activities try to teach us about the peculiar sort of life Jesus called his followers to live. While that may sound like a good and important endeavor, it\u2019s really a waste of time because the truth is Jesus was wrong about a lot of things he said.<\/p>\n
Jesus said you can\u2019t serve two masters, but we know that life must be lived serving many masters, work, school, friends, fun, sex. Jesus is certainly among them, but we must serve all these masters if we are to live a \u201ccomplete\u201d and \u201cwhole\u201d life.<\/p>\n
Jesus said turn the other cheek and not resist evil doers, but we that Jesus didn\u2019t understand that when people come to take your life, you must respond with violence in order to protect yourself and others.<\/p>\n
Jesus said to sell everything you have and give it to the poor because it\u2019s easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, but we know that God really wants us to be rich or at the very least, not poor. After all, why else would we have all this stuff?<\/p>\n
Jesus said never stop forgiving, but we know that there\u2019s a limit to forgiveness when others hurt us too badly.<\/p>\n
Jesus said that even lustful looks are sinful, but we know that sexuality is a defining part of our identity and therefore something to be celebrated and indulged in whenever we have the chance.<\/p>\n
Jesus said the last will be first and the least will be the greatest, but we know that if we don\u2019t fight for what\u2019s \u201cours\u201d we\u2019ll get trampled upon by others and miss out on our \u201cjust reward\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jesus said to be humble, but we know that only the proud will thrive in life.<\/p>\n
Jesus said to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, but we know that real life demands that all our enemies be defeated and humiliated.<\/p>\n
Jesus said be perfect, but we know that God will forgive us anyway. After all, why bother pursuing holiness when no one\u2019s perfect anyway?<\/p>\n
Jesus said a lot of things, but we know better. We know how life in the real world has to be lived.<\/p>\n
Now, we may never come out and say it that way, but our lives makes it pretty clear that Jesus was wrong and we know better than he did about how life can and should be lived.<\/p>\n
We can fight battles till we\u2019re blue in the face over the truth of Christianity, but every time we make decisions contrary to the teachings of Jesus, our actions declare to the world that the \u201ctruth\u201d is Jesus was wrong.\u00a0In other words, every time we choose to destroy our enemies rather than love them or seek our own comfort over others\u2019 needs or trust in stuff rather than in God, it\u2019s like we\u2019re winking at our enemies and conceding \u201cYou\u2019re right, Jesus was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
If we really believed Jesus\u2019 teachings were the truth, though we would certainly stumble and fall in the pursuit of that calling, we wouldn\u2019t spend so much of our time rationalizing or justifying why we choose to ignore so many of the things Jesus said. Though winning a debate may be momentarily satisfying, if \u201ctruth\u201d is really as important to us as it seems to be, then the only way we as the Church have to prove the truth of Jesus is to incarnate the good news even and especially when it doesn\u2019t make sense to do so.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t an easy path to tread and those who pursue it will certainly stumble along the way, but for the Christian faith, ultimate truth is not found in rhetoric. It\u2019s found when Jesus\u2019 words become our actions. It\u2019s found in incarnation.<\/p>\n
Which means, until we stop making excuses and start living lives that intentionally seek to match up with the gospel we preach, until then, the message we proclaim to the world will be \u201cJesus was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Grace and peace,<\/p>\n
Zack Hunt<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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