“now there are two great lies I have heard, That the day you eat that fruit, you will not surely die, and that Jesus Christ was a white middle class republican, and if you want to get to heaven you have to be just like him”- Derek Webb, A king and a Kingdom
Those lines from the song “A king and a kingdom” are some of the most thought provoking lines that I have heard in a song in quite a while, Derek Webb is in my opinion not just one of the greatest christian song writers in a long while, but also one of the best Songwriters in general.
His song led me to actually think about how Jesus had been portrayed to me all my life. I had always heard that the republican party was all that a christian should vote for, and every picture that I saw of Jesus portrayed a tall, strong, clean, white, male. Never a shorter, dirty, stocky, olive skinned man as is far more likely to have actually been, I was told that I was supposed to be like Jesus but when all I saw were those pictures and those portrayals, The only way that I knew to act like Jesus was to act like the rest of the middle class society.
Just thougth I’d get some thought process going there.!)avid
February 6, 2008 at 11:45 am
Food for thought - by getting away from the Bible (as many American Christians have) we have lost the actual description of who Jesus is and what accountability his word holds us to when we are called to live like him.