"There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a pride [sic?] fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up."
Mark Driscoll
From "Relevant Magazine"
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"This also is Thou; neither is this Thou."
--that quote is of unknown origin, but used by CS Lewis and others. I think it's particularly appropriate here.
Driscoll is right in one way: Jesus was not weak. He also seemed to occasionally piss people off on purpose.
But this is also someone who people DID beat up, ridicule, and murder. This is a guy who told us to turn the other cheek when someone strikes us.
In affirming the one, you cannot deny the other.
Why does worship need to depend on violence at all? Or does that put me in the left camp of hippies? Goodness and righteousness by pounding and bloodshed? Weird. Now is not the time for bloodshed and judgment. Jesus gets to sport that tattoo because he'll be announcing that time. Our change is to love. And it's a shame that perfect love looks hippyish apparently to some.
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