Thread by @jarrodmckenna

**God-bothering warning**

There is so much ugly that claims the name of Jesus that seems completely devoid of the content of the Gospels. So I just want to take a moment and say why I so love Jesus. Why his name sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest Name on earth.

• his creative and often confrontational compassion
#whyIloveJesus

•his rejection of militarism for a militant nonviolence
#whyIloveJesus

•his provocative holiness of mercy not purity
#whyIloveJesus

•his economics of earth-affirming jubilee not empire building usury
#whyIloveJesus

•his affirmation of God at work in those who the religious elite insist God isn’t found
#whyIloveJesus

•his exorcisms of spirits that harm and oppress

•his healing of those who are hurting
#whyIloveJesus

•his including those who are excluded
#whyIloveJesus

•his choosing of those who are rejected
#whyIloveJesus

•his ‘guerrilla lorefare’ parables and teaching
#whyIloveJesus

•his lifting up of the little ones
#whyIloveJesus

•his empowering of women
#whyIloveJesus

•His Spirit soaked ministry
#whyIloveJesus

•(to steal from Rumi), how 'lost in love' he is with the One he called “Abba”

•his ending of sacrifice through the giving of himself
#whyIloveJesus

•his haunting victory over evil, injustice, sin, violence and Death through his humiliating death on a Cross
#whyIloveJesus

•his strange Resurrection through which we can see the Cross was not the defeat of love at the hands of injustice, violence, oppression, sin and Death, but the victory of Love over injustice, violence, oppression, sin and Death, at the nails scarred hands of God.
#whyIloveJesus

•his announcement and embodiment of a the healing of all things through his Cross-shaped love.
#whyIloveJesus

and,
because he first loved me.
#whyIloveJesus

So if you are saying "Jesus" and don't mean the Jesus above of the Gospels, we aren't talking about the same reality.