Jesus only ever wrote in the sand. God came to earth and he didn't even leave us one letter about what the faith should entail. (Yes, I know ... the Bible is the inspired Word of God, Jesus is God, Jesus left us with the Bible ... but,) He never authored any books - not even a murder mystery novel. Nothing. We aren't left with any autobiographical text from Jesus. I would think that if I were the Son of God (and I'm not) I would leave some writing behind. I would be so afraid that people would screw up what I taught them that I would need to leave a lot of things in writing. That's why Paul wrote so many letters. The people he spoke to got really messed up after he left. Some things he had said weren't clear and needed some clarification. The people still had a lot of questions. Jesus didn't have this problem. After his ascension he didn't need to leave anything to correct, clarify, or otherwise enhance his words. Actions speak louder than words.
That's my point. Jesus' actions are what make Him the Christ. It isn't that he was a great moral teacher. It wasn't that he had a lot of followers. It wasn't even that he stood up to the Pharisees. It was that he lived a sinless life and then died with the weight of all sinners on his shoulders. That's quite an action.
Whenever we get ourselves all caught up about theology, eschatology, and evolutionary biology; when we fail to love so severly that a dying world no longer looks to us for hope; and when we have so much division in the church that politics divide us better that Satan could have planned: It's at these times that we need to look at the actions of Jesus. We argue so much over His words and how to interpret those rules that we fail to remember His actions.
When you devote your life to ending abortion you lose sight of Jesus and what he did for us (and pregnant women.) When you devote your life to ensuring diversity in the church you forget that the reason for being in church is that Jesus died for us (and red, black, and yellow people.)
Our actions speak louder than words. His actions spoke louder than all the words in the world combined could ever speak.
That's my point. Jesus' actions are what make Him the Christ. It isn't that he was a great moral teacher. It wasn't that he had a lot of followers. It wasn't even that he stood up to the Pharisees. It was that he lived a sinless life and then died with the weight of all sinners on his shoulders. That's quite an action.
Whenever we get ourselves all caught up about theology, eschatology, and evolutionary biology; when we fail to love so severly that a dying world no longer looks to us for hope; and when we have so much division in the church that politics divide us better that Satan could have planned: It's at these times that we need to look at the actions of Jesus. We argue so much over His words and how to interpret those rules that we fail to remember His actions.
When you devote your life to ending abortion you lose sight of Jesus and what he did for us (and pregnant women.) When you devote your life to ensuring diversity in the church you forget that the reason for being in church is that Jesus died for us (and red, black, and yellow people.)
Our actions speak louder than words. His actions spoke louder than all the words in the world combined could ever speak.
posted by Michael Airgood at 2:03 PM
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