Jim Pace

Get the idea, appreciate the heart behind it, don’t think this was Jesus’ point…

November 21, 2010 | 4 Comments

I will let ABC3 out of Pensacola, Mobile and Ft. Walton Beach lay it out for you…

Huge Jesus statue consecrated in Poland
November 21, 2010 14:18 EST

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Local officials in Poland say it’s the world’s largest statue of Jesus.

It was consecrated today by Roman Catholic priests in the presence of hundreds of Polish faithful.

According to a Polish news agency , they walked in a procession, singing and carrying banners, to the huge statue overlooking a plain in a western Polish town .

People in the town say the statue with outstretched arms rises even higher than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

Local businesspeople hope the monument will attract tourists and pilgrims and give the area an economic boost.

I think that if this was what Jesus was going for, he would have chosen to come back to Rome and he would have worked through that government.  It would have elevated both him and his message much more effectively than his choice of keeping his covenant with the people of Abraham.  They had no access to the power structures of their day, had almost no ambient respectability from any other nation that was around them, and seemed to be almost powerless to exert their will onto anyone, even themselves.

But he did choose them, he kept his promise and came back.  He spent his very short time of ministry making disciples and then he entrusted them, and now us, with the continuation of the process that he started.

Building people, not monuments.

Thoughts?

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