- Good Friday
- Good Friday. Put an ‘L’ sign over your head. Loser. That was what the followers of Jesus felt when they couldn’t meet the eyes of the religious authorities who finally got the troublemaker Jesus out of their way. Gloating, satisfaction, a feeling of justification for their sickening self-righteousness. - Rather than feeling smug about “…But Sunday’s Commin’!”, we should take a moment to really put ourselves in the place of those who struggled with the reality they had left everything to follow a now shamed and permanently cancelled ‘loser’. - Those who sat on the fence about Jesus, enjoying the show while it lasted, began rewriting their personal narratives about him with assurances they were smart to not get too involved in such a radical proposition that went against every truth of the social reality around them. The crucified Jesus had told his followers they would never fit in. - It is time to look at the half-measures of our own commitment to the proposition that Heaven ...