Un-Quoting Jesus: "Rosebud"

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Here’s the plan for happiness: love one another.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You open our minds to new things. The old is foundation, but the new drives us onward. You invite our participation in the amazing complexity of a living creation. Instead of memorials to the past, you lead to new and transformed life. Lead on, guiding light and resurrection hope.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Rosebud.”

[No, that was not the 8th word from the cross.]

D. Blog: Resurrection: TV Opinion Poll

A couple of years ago, one TV network touted a program called “Do You Believe in the Resurrection?” – or something like that.

Isn’t that special…

- Is a TV show going to change anyone’s mind?
- Resurrection as fodder for a big audience (largely of those who do believe).
- Did they also ask what difference it makes in how those people live?
- I assumed they meant Jesus’ bodily resurrection. If the assumption is correct, then no, I don’t believe in it.
- I emphatically do believe in His resurrection on at least three other levels: (1) His spirit lives in and among those for whom He is Lord; (2) He lives in His new body, the church, visible for all to see; (3) millions of people experience resurrection of the kind that matters, finding new life after being crushed by circumstances beyond their control.
- That being said, I find that the idea of Jesus’ physical resurrection is inconsequential and beside the point. Give me real resurrection over imaginary. Even if physical resurrection happened, it would not really make a difference in our experience of it.