Excerpt from SOJOUNERS March 16, 2016
Jesus Was a Protester
By Stephen Mattson
If Christians are honest with themselves about the gospel message of Jesus, they should know that protesting can be a holy act of righteousness..
Protesting is the antithesis of being apathetic, complicit, callous, and passive, and Christians should take comfort in the fact that Jesus — the son of God — was very good at it.
Sometimes Jesus did this quietly, and other times it was inflammatory, provocative, and publicly disruptive. But there’s no doubt that Jesus was a radical, a person who was eventually arrested, beaten, and sacrificed on a cross because of his words and actions.
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