Cleaning the Lense

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Michael Frost has posted some excellent short clips discussing Jesus in the context of poverty. You can find them here:

Becoming the Poor
Jesus Etiquette
Jesus: Man of the Streets

These clips peeled back a weird film off the lense through which I see the Gospel, and the world. Most of my life I've learned from pastors who believed (and subconsiously taught) that Jesus was middle- to upper-middle class. It has cast a sickly tint on what I've read. Time to get the lenses cleaned, and dig in for myself.

Thanks to Johnman at my Blue trike Life for the links.

Posted by Erin Wilson at 2:23 PM |
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10 comments:


Sarah Louise said...
LOVE Michael Frost. Will come back and watch these later.
10:56 PM

bobbie said...
thank you erin, this was church for me today. i really needed this - sometimes being around other christians can make you feel absolutely crazy. like maybe it's really not about this. like maybe the money, prestige and lifestyle is really what we're supposed to be headed toward - instead of this.

i have had so many doubts lately. this helps. thank you.
10:40 AM

Lorna said...
thanks. another bit of the puzzle today dear friend. Shadowpeople. mmm
4:55 PM

Steve F. said...
I have been re-reading Stumbling Toward Faith by renee altson, because though I never experienced a jot or a tittle of the hell she endured, I felt many of the same feelings of being "apart from" rather than "a part of."

And I too have been wondering about how we can be so "Christian" while there are people hungry. Sara Miles (Here is Bread) reminds me what the right things to do really are.

I need to come back and spend more time with these links. But thanks for posting 'em, sister!
3:57 PM

wilsonian said...
It's interesting that you mention Stumbling Toward Faith... It has been an important book in my life.

One of the things I'm thinking about is that, as simple as this sounds, shadow people don't wear self-identifying t-shirts. You know?! There are people all around us who are also shadow people. I have been a shadow person too. Need to open my heart wider.
1:05 PM

wilsonian said...
SL- How have I not come across him sooner??!! I know his name, but somehow have missed his stuff. woah.

Bobbie- I'm so glad to hear that. Trust. Trust it. You're heard. Trust.

Lorna- Great clarifyer for me too.
1:24 PM

Heather said...
I don't think that I have ever heard him minister before.
This also was an eye opener for me as well. I thought that maybe Jesus was poor, but never looked at it in that way though. There are so many parts of the Bible that have been taught in such a way that it has distorted life. It seems that God is bringing the revelation in way that we see His Word for what it is.
8:46 PM

wilsonian said...
Hey Heather :)
Funny how we have this way of making God over into our own image...
9:25 PM

nealb said...
been loving finding videos like this online.. thanks for sharing!

i was tagged in a little meme, and would love to hear yours..
"Things which one has read and has been influenced by which are not confined to those paper-bound vessels of the printed word we refer to as books. Let’s call these Non-Books. Or maybe Impossible Books. Or Limen Books? It’s up to you. List five."

http://www.nealb.co.uk/2007/06/non-books/
10:27 AM

Steve F. said...
shadow people don't wear self-identifying t-shirts...

I don't remember who wrote it - some 20th century wag - but it's still good: If I'm not listening to you, what makes you think I'll listen to your underwear?
4:53 PM

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