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?
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??
Jesus was not homeless.
Will there be any crucifixes near the statue?
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.
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.