What if Jesus was President?
What if Jesus was the Head of State?
What would this world be like if Jesus was the leader of our country? This question intrigues me, not because I think the country would freak out to have a Palestinian stone mason as it's Head of State, but because I would love to see Jesus's campaign. How would he market himself? What would he do to win over the world? Who would vote for him, the right wings, the socialist, the liberals, the communist, it is just an interesting thing to think about.
Something that interest me more is the question, what if Jesus was the president of the Church. How much better would the world be if that was the case. What would be his stance on all the things that matter most to us, that when it all just boils down to it are simply trivial.
What denomination would he belong to?
The Baptist?
The Church of Christ?
The Assemblies of God?
The Methodist?
The Episcopalians?
Who knows? Would Jesus run as an independent? Its funny to think about, because it seems absurd but we all have our own party affiliations when it comes to church. We have all put things in the head seat of our churches, so that if Jesus ran for the Head of the Church position he would have a lot of things running against him. Really petty and trivial things, that we all seem to let have some kind of office in our lives. We all support the campaign of something that would run against Jesus in the race for our Churches.
Interpretations
Traditions
Theologies
Doctrines
Denominations
Greed
All these things sit in the seat that is for the Head of the Church. I have been to several churches and I realized that we all struggle with something. There are some in every church that put something before the message of God. We all fund the campaign for something different and when we do that it divides us.
We all have our church political parties.
Jesus came to preach a message of Love, Peace, Compassion, Understanding, Community, but the church of today preaches a message diluted by man made traditions and creeds.
Before our world will accept Jesus for President his constituents (the Church) needs to come together and campaign for him, instead of the things of man.
People have said that Christianity is a dying religion and I can see why. The world only see Christians fighting each other over little differences in the book that they all hold as Holy.
Instead of the Church coming together with Love and Community we separate ourselves with trivial differences. Mark 3 talks about this when he says "A house divided against itself will not stand". The Church of today has divided itself, brothers against brothers, fathers against their sons, and friends against friends. We have a common goal but for some reason we fight each other, as if to say we have it the right way.
My plea to you as Christians is to embrace the campaign for Jesus. Pick up the signs for Love, Compassion, Peace, Understanding, Community, and put away the prejudices we have built up over the years. They are only hurting the cause.
Let us make Jesus President of our lives, Church and Country.
Jesus for President!
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Charlie,
ReplyDeleteExcellent post, isn’t it interesting that the concept of Jesus running for President seam crazy, while at the same time we are trying to impose other corporate rules on His Church. It would be great if we could all stand together and be accepting and loving of each other. As I read the new testament, specifically the letters from Paul, I find it interesting that every issues he addressed, every person he corrected and encouraged, he always referred to them first as brothers and/or sisters in Christ. Maybe we can learn another trick from going back to our Bibles, and that is you don’t have to be just like "me" to follow Christ.
Great thoughts, thanks,