In this hilarious video which is a satire on Chrisian legalism, Jesus is giving the rules for the first Christian meeting. Such important rules such as wearing t-shirts with Jesus' face on them and only luahging in the church if it is about how dumb the devil is, and my persnal favourite, you must have a stylish beard like His. After all these rules have been stated a man bursts into the meeting angry because he can't go to heaven. He even grew out his beard! Jesus stated that because he went to a football game he can't go to heaven.
Why I feel like this video is so impactful is that so often we think that Jesus has a ton of rules and that He is trying to take everything in life that we enjoy and say that it is evil or bad. I think this is a reason why many people keep their distance from Christianity or shy away from going deeper in their walk with Him. There may be things in their life that they enjoy doing but they have fear they will have to give them up.
It is true that the sinful things we do need to be excluded from our life because they are things that are harmful to both ourselves and our relationship with Christ. The problem with this mentality is that people think that they have to clean themselves up before they can be accepted by Jesus. I would argue that people outside the church think this way because often they need to clean themselves up before they can be accepted by Christians.
Do you know how much this must break the heart of Jesus? He died because we could not live up to the standard the law set, and now we are putting the burden of obligation and rules on others. I think it is time we all started showing people the kind of radical grace we have been given. Once this has taken place I would argue that the dirt in peoples lives would start to be washed away.
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