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Following Jesus in nonviolent struggle for justice and peace, we love our neighbors and enemies as God loves us all, becoming a peace church to share in Gods work to save the world.

Jesus as Prophet

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    Continuing to recommend AMBASSADORS OF RECONCILIATION, a book I identified here some weeks ago (click "view archive" and look at 11/18/09), today I'm sharing a quote from Myers and Enns. They speak of Jesus as one who was not only a babe in a manger, but who disturbed the status quo as Dr. Martin Luther King did.

     "Thus, the real King is highly inconvenient for a nation that has canonized him and then ignored his clarion call to examine the "deeper malady within the American spirit."
      "The same can be said about Jesus of Nazareth. The portrait we get in the Gospels--of an anointed man who ministered among the poor, relentlessly challenged the rich and powerful, and was executed as a political dissident--is a far cry from the stained-glass-window Christ we encounter in many churches. This seems to be a pattern in human culture: we are far more comfortable with dead prophets than living ones. We honor them publicly only after they are safely disposed of, after which they are put on display in museums and shrines. Jesus understood this tendency well: "Woe to you!" he exclaimed, "For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed" (Luke 11:47)."

John K. Stoner    jstoner@ecapc.org

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