Keith Giles of Subversive Underground asks:
What happened to us?
How have we become a Church where the World doesn't hate us the way it hated Jesus? Sure, some people do hate us, but many of those, at least in America, only find us horrifically annoying. They might hate being around us, but not enough to kill us. And those that do hate us don't hate us the way the Pharisees hated Jesus. They hate us because we're hypocritcal, hateful, intolerant and judgemental. The Pharisees hated Jesus because he was radically inclusive, spent time with the wrong sorts of people who were unclean and dirty and poor and sick and sinful. No one hates the Church for any of these reasons...
great point. it seems like the church and the pharisees are one and the same for the most part. when the church becomes hated (watch your toes, I really don't want to step on them) by the moral majority, i think we might be doing something right.
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