If Jesus carried notes from his Vision Statement….

vision

  • Be born in weird circumstances
  • Flee a murderous king
  • Argue with scholars at 12
    • And be a little bit above your station with your parents!
  • Become a carpenter for 30 years
  • Get baptized by your cousin John
  • Go into wilderness and be tested by satan without eating or drinking for 40 days
  • If successful begin ministry…
  • Call ordinary people to your side
  • Re-interpret the Bible like you know what you’re talking about
  • Assume you are the fulfilment of the promises
  • Heal people of all sorts of sickness and disease
  • Never catch the sicknesses or diseases yourself
  • Walk on water (frighten the life out of those in the actual boat)!
  • Talk to demons; silence demons
  • Kill the pigs and curse the figs

  • Tell simple stories that are not simple at all
  • Talk as though you actually know God
  • Do not break a bruised reed
  • Call Pharisees children of the devil
  • Don’t worry about forgetting your bottle of wine if you go to a wedding
  • Own nothing
  • Write nothing
  • Feed thousands of people, not once, but twice
  • Call yourself bread and light and water and truth and life and feel no shame about it
  • Talk about your death like it’s a done deal
  • Transfigure yourself but only take two chaps with you
  • Keep talking about your death; and sin; and adultery; and forgiveness and the Father’s love
  • Be the Rest that people were made for
  • Pray a lot
  • Raise to life some who have died
  • Keep praying
  • Bless the pesky kids
  • Ride a donkey to Jerusalem like it’s normal
  • Thrash the money men and women from the temple – quote Jeremiah
  • Pay your taxes – and show off whilst doing it
  • Say “Woe” to the Pharisees quite a lot
  • Speak mysteriously about the End of the Age and Abominations and clouds and the final judgment, etc
  • Pretend not to know about your betrayer and betrayal
  • Eat bread, drink wine, wash feet, sing a Psalm
  • Act surprised when disciples fall asleep in the middle of the night
  • Pray all night and literally sweat blood
  • Say nothing when arrested
  • If you must speak, speak mysteriously
  • Do not resist your brutal assailants
  • Get crucified
  • Forgive them
  • Die
  • Save them
  • Rise
  • Show them
  • Pretend to be the gardener of Gethsemane
  • Appear to your friends
  • Freak Thomas out; freak them all out
  • Give them a job to do and a message to proclaim
  • Go back to heaven in a way that no film maker will ever be able to depict without looking really silly

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Published by Gralefrit Theology

Gralefrit is (another) blog of theological musings and sermons and other juicy tit-bits from a follower of Jesus Christ, hoping to be joined by others along the Way. Gralefrit is a made-up word coined by the undercover policeman (played by Robin Ellis) in an episode of Fawlty Towers (A Touch of Class) who, when ordering breakfast from the maid Polly, assumed the persona of an ignorant illiterate, and ordered his grapefruit by stumbling through the menu and asked for a “gralefrit’. Classic!! The link with this web site should be obvious: I am a God-lover/Jesus follower/Baptist church minister/aspiring-theologian/husband/father/grandfather from England, but feel that any attempts to explain the divine grapefruit of God’s Word only end up as a stuttering and incoherent stumble towards something that stretches and leans towards the real thing. If I can tempt you with my gralefrit’s, then maybe you can be encouraged to actually taste the real thing. Oh, and another thing, to prove I'm no crack pot, Liverpool are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen!

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