Posted on 02/01/2015 11:16:05 AM PST by Faith Presses On
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Picture the image of Jesus sleeping on a bench on a downtown Austin sidewalk. The pastor of an Austin Presbyterian church worked to bring the unique form of art that is meant to highlight the plight of the homeless. “We are in the final planning stages and getting ready to receive a sculpture called ‘the Homeless Jesus,’” said Joseph Moore, pastor at the Central Presbyterian Church.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-orlando-homeless-jesus-20150129-story.html
The Austin sponsoring church appears to be PC-USA, but the Orlando church is Evangelical Presbyterian.
Not exactly sure yet what to think of this.
If the church is worried about homelessness, why don’t they provide them shelter?
More on the sculpture:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_the_Homeless
I haven’t read the article but would be surprised if the artist wasn’t either a “liberal Christian” or atheist.
Wikipedia says the sculptor is a “devout Catholic.”
I’ve talked to people who work at homeless shelters. They say most the people who sleep outside do so because they do not wish to abide by the rules of the shelter (like being there at 10 PM and so on).
They are revising the image of God to meet the Left’s agenda of today. Along with homelessness comes mental illness and drug addition. That being the case, Jesus becomes another helpless down and outer. Who becomes the powerful God? The Left who were so “sensitive” that they commissioned the statue and so “sensitive” that they want to be the ones to whom we pray and petition.
Carpenters are homeless??
I had a sister who slept in a shelter during some bad times, she was robbed blind every night
All that we can be assured of is that the sculptor got paid handsomely for his work but whose money it was is still unclear.
I would guess he to be ‘devout’ in the same way Pelosi is considered to be ‘devout’.
(Luke 9:58)
Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
Jesus was not homeless.
Will there be any crucifixes near the statue?
Well said. The liberal sodomite agenda has a goal of characterizing The Savior as a weak, feminized, shiftless drifter. The reality was, IS and WILL ETERNALLY BE far different.
I recall a story about an aristocratic family in old Russia, who used to regularly invite a beggar to dine with them, and would serve the beggar themselves, rather than having their household staff do it. If their children had been naughty, the children were forbidden to help, with the phrase “No, you can’t serve Christ because you” with a reminder of the child’s transgression.
The point of the sculpture is as a reminder of Our Lord’s description of the Last Judgement, “...in as much as ye did it to the least of these, ye did it to me....in as much as ye did it not to the least of these, ye did it not to me...”
The point is to see the homeless man as Christ, not Christ as a homeless man. I don’t know whether it succeeds in making the point, but that is clearly what the artist was trying to do, and the point is worth making.
A smaller model of this statue is displayed at my daughter’s Catholic high school. There are plans to get the full statue placed outdoors in the near future. It really is pretty cool.
Except it seems contrary to what Jesus replied when asked Where's your home?
(Matt 8:19,20; also Lk 9:57,58)
A scribe then approached and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
The liberal sodomite agenda has a goal of characterizing The Savior as a weak, feminized, shiftless drifter. The reality was, IS and WILL ETERNALLY BE far different.
Oh, I quite agree that the reality is quite different from what they think; I am also of the opinion that it's probably going to be a lot different than we think as well.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. -- Philippians 4:13
That doesn't seem to be on the topic here.
If we really look at Jesus's life here, we see that he hung around
prostitutes, tax-collectors, the scum of the earth
-types — and if we're really honest with ourselves, we'll admit that those were the ones who were most receptive to his message (certainly more grateful).
The owner of the Universe is hardly homeless. When scumbag Marxists and homos try to use Jesus for their sickening propaganda, God always seems to find a way to leave THEM in ridicule. God is not mocked.
“The point is to see the homeless man as Christ, not Christ as a homeless man. I don’t know whether it succeeds in making the point, but that is clearly what the artist was trying to do, and the point is worth making.”
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I see this the same way, and am very suprised by the reactions on this thread. Jesus sought out the company of the lowest in the community, and demostrated to the world that God dwells in everyone of us. Each is equally worthy of his love and salvation.
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