Love your enemies
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:44-45
We can’t understand Jesus words because we have it so easy. Let’s take a minute to remember who he was talking to. Jesus was talking to a group of Jews under the iron fist of the Roman Empire. Many of these people had their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters slaughtered, killed, and murdered by the powers that be. Jesus is telling them to pray for those who persecute them? This message just took on a whole different level of depth. Jesus is calling us to love those who don’t deserve it, because we don’t deserve it.
Interesting images. The organization behind the images, The Plow, seems to be a design agency for Christ. Of course, He may be more in need of a PR team. I don’t think the mainstream of US Christianity is ready to buy this product.
ideas &religion posted by: dan @ 14 Feb 2008 1:24
Posted：24 Mar 2008 13:26 1. By：Mike Anderson
Hey Dan,
Thanks for your thoughts. The cool thing about this is that we aren’t even selling these images. We’re giving them away. And quite a few churches across the country have posted them.
On thing that I hope we take away from these pieces of art is: If you’re going to be controversial, be controversial in the way Jesus was. He never said something like “Sex. now that I have you’re attention let me tell you about my church” I think we’re a few years away from this thinking being the norm.