| | Well, I just finished watching The Passion of the Christ. I we've owned for a while but I never stopped to watch it. I don't know I think that maybe I was sub-consciously trying to avoid watching knowing that it would change me. But I finally did, and it did. I believe that EVERY Christian should watch that movie. I show a whole lot more about what Christ when through to save us, but even this movie had to edit for violence, the really thing wasn't nearly so tame. I think that Christians are much too comfortable with being Christians. Being a Christian doesn't cause persecution, ridicule and death, like it did for the early roman church. But when did that church grow the most...during those times of intense persecution. Persecution acts like a litmus test, showing truth for truth and falsehood for falsehood. It also makes things real, makes concepts and idea that you believe real on a level that comfort does not allow. They also say seeing is believing, but in this case, it more like seeing defines reality. When you picture Jesus, what do you picture? Do you picture him on the cross? Do you picture Him with a crown of thorns? Most people, as far as I can tell, have a mental photograph of Jesus in His white robes, with a small, neat crown of thorns place on the top of his head...is this reality? NO!!! Christ DIED!!! I highly doubt He was smiling, the crown was not gingerly placed on his head...it was BEATEN ON!!!! It wasn't a few small scratches on his back...he was beaten and wiped to such a bloody pulp that you couldn't tell he was a man. This death, this immense pain was willing borne to save us...to save me, you...even if only you where to only person to every accept this gift, he would have still done it. To actually see this truth brings Christ sacrifice to a whole new level. To see the stripes, to see the nails, to see the crown, to see the ridicule, to see the pain...to see the tears. All shed for a people who would reject him...what love is that? And what do we as Christians do with that gift with the price so high..we get shy, we get scared, we don't proclaim, out side of comfort zone, a Christ who died, such a brutal, painful and bloody death. How hypocritical are we? |
| | Posted 2/5/2006 11:18 PM - 25 Views - 6 eProps - 4 comments
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