cartoon: jesus lends a helping hand

Posted in humour by nakedpastor on the February 28th, 2008

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Laura said, on February 28th, 2008 at 11:39 am

Whoa…..
Although, in my experience it’s more likely to be his “bride” doing the hammering.
tammi said, on February 28th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

I don’t get this one….
Explain where you’re coming from on this one??
Priscilla said, on February 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Well that certainly caught my attention.
Steve said, on February 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

He demands a death from us. And one way or another He will have it. (”the wages of sin is death”)

We either die here, or There. I’ll take mine here, thank you.

- Steve
fishon said, on February 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

AMEN, Steve.
fishon
zefi said, on February 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Err, waitaminute!

Aren’t we supposed to only carry our crosses?

Something was written about dying to self, but nobody said anything about crucifying ourselves, DIY style???
sarah said, on February 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

We voluntarily crucify ourselves when we put up with each other, Zef.

Sometimes we need his help to “die to self.”

Like it Dave

Much love to All,

Sas x
Tim said, on February 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Reminds me of an expression I heard a minister say years ago . . . “Jesus loves the smell of roasting lamb.”

Hang in there friend . . .
Laura said, on February 29th, 2008 at 2:24 am

Nope. You know I’ve thought about this cartoon today and I think that it’s designed to be shocking. It is…

It’s completely against the very nature of someone that loves you to nail you to a cross. If Jesus really is who christians say he is, the love of God personified, then this cartoon is way off.

Something in me is completely repeled by it.

But not at all repeled at you David! Just to be clear….
Steve said, on February 29th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Laura,

It certainly is logical and rational for one to believe that a God who is Love would never nail us to a cross.

But God’s ways are not our ways. If He sent His only, beloved Son to die on a cross He would send us there too.

And in order to make us new again (reborn), He must kill off the old.
This killing (or staking to the cross) doesn’t happen literally (on a cross), but it happens everyday in our lives. The death of a loved one,a divorce, loss of a job, sickness, all the pain that we are forced to endure in our lives. In conjunction with those “deaths”, He also puts us to death when we hear His righteous demand of the law and we come to the realization that we haved failed God, and ourselves, and our friends and families.

After we die. We are raised. Reborn. Again, and again, and again.(that’s repentance)

Until that final day when we are laid to rest for the final time. Then we will be raised to everlasting life and experience death no more.

Thanks Laura, and David.

- Steve
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jean said, on February 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Does the author of love who is love send His Son to be murdered?

Do we accept that without question?
Do we have all the answers?

Do we accept that as the mission of Jesus? Is it wrong to wonder if the mystery of God may hold other answers? Is it God’s desire to have us die through divorce, illiness ,tradegy? Is this the picture God shows us of Himself in Jesus’s life??

David, Who is holding the hammer in your picture? And who are you depicting on the cross? I don’t see the back of that person looking like the God I have read about in your words. Is it one of Job’s “friends”??

Why do we always think that love must be painful? And that it is God’s “working”??????
thebutler said, on February 29th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

great cartoon.
it speaks where words cannot.
Steve said, on February 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

“Why do we always think that love must be painful? And that it is God’s “working”?????? ”

Jean,

We are the ones that make love painful. God knew what would happen when He showed up here. He knew that when His goodness appeared in the midst of a fallen, sinful creature, that there would be no other outcome than for Him to
be staked to wood and left to die. Yet, He came…out of love, that we might live. That is real love.

The little deaths that we die are not a result of God’s action, but our actions. God allows everything to happen, but is at work, in His mysterious ways, to bring about repentance, death to the self (the religious, self-justification project), and new life.

He could just snap His fingers and be done with us all. Start over and hope for a better batch of creatures next time.

Instead, He has chosen, out of His good and gracious will, to save us…through a death on the cross.

I don’t know about you, but the love in my life has been wonderful and painful. For me, at least, this is reality.

Thanks Jean.

- Steve
zefi said, on March 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Err, waitaminuteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

So Steve, you mean, all that we share to people, that when Christ was crucified and went through death, we also die WITH him, that was all rubbish?

Is that the Good News that you’ve received?

I think we Christians need to go and relearn the basics of our religion.
Fred said, on March 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 am

We certainly can’t crucify ourselves. Physically (and spiritually?) impossible. But it seems to me that in Christ it’s already done. I HAVE BEEN crucified with Christ. It’s no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. Me in Christ. Christ in me.
Steve said, on March 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm

zefi, Fred,

Right! His death way back there was enough for us. But, it doesn’t mean that all our suffering and death is over. ” If they did this to me when the wood is hard, what will they do to you when the wood is green?”

We go the cross everyday in our failures. In our pain. In our suffereing. But we are rased everyday as well, to the forgiveness of our sins. The dying and rising of the Christian is a lifelong thing.

Look around, and look at your own life. Lot’s of suffering, lots of pain. But there is joy as well.

To me, that is the life we all share. If you’ve escaped pain and suffering in your life so far…that’s great! But stand by, it will surely come.

Thanks!

- Steve
Fred said, on March 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Steve…yup!

But, like Jesus “joy set before him,” there is a “joy set before us”…
Steve said, on March 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 am

Fred,

Here, here!

I guess, Amen! (more appropriate)

- steve

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