a.k.a. - sh*t disturber

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”  Jn. 1:14   NKJV “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, generous inside and out, true from start to finish.”  Jn. 1:14   The Message “I believe it is a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it…We cannot blink the fact that Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in His opinions and so inflammatory in His language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger. Whatever His peace was, it was not the peace of an amiable indifference.” “To those who knew him…he in no way suggests a milk-and-water person; they objected to him as a dangerous firebrand. True, he was tender to the unfortunate, patient with honest inquirers, and humble before heaven; but he insulted respectable clergymen by calling them hypocrites. He referred to King Herod as ‘that fox’; he went to parties in disreputable company and was looked upon as a ‘gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners’; he assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the temple; he drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; he cured diseases by any means that came handy, with a shocking casualness in the matter of other people’s pigs and property; he showed no proper deference for wealth or social position; when confronted with neat dialectical traps, he displayed a paradoxical humor that affronted serious-minded people, and he retorted by asking disagreeably searching questions that could not be answered by rule of thumb.” “…The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him “meek and mild” and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies. Those who knew him, however…objected to him as a dangerous firebrand.”  Dorothy Sayers ((I've been called a person who 'likes' being a sh*t-disturber.  That description of me should not have hurt me as much as it did.))  I'm not a big fan of 'safe' Jesus, of 'pat on the back, everything will be fine' Jesus, of 'I didn't come to change anything' Jesus, of 'carry on, as you were' Jesus, of 'paste on a smile even if your life sucks' Jesus.  I much prefer the sh*t disturber.   Having trouble finding him lately... :( ((I acknowledge that Christianity is often portrayed as 'offensive' in the media, but, sadly, not for the right reasons.))