The Curt Jester (aka Jeff Miller) has tagged CMR with the following meme.
The Rules:
Those tagged will share 5 things they “love” about Jesus. Those tagged will tag 5 other bloggers. Those tagged will provide a link in the comments section here with their name so that others can read them.
Well, my initial impulse with anything ‘serious’ is to give as silly and ill-considered a response as possible. However, knowing that I am supposed to be an adult, I have decided to make a genuine effort at giving a thoughtful answer. In no particular order.
●I love that Jesus chose the Apostles that he did. These men were thick headed dolts who often acted out of pettiness and cowardice. Much the same way that I do. I love that he chose these men to do what they did. It gives me hope.
●I love that with forgiveness, Jesus also issued a challenge. He didn’t just say “your sins are forgiven, have a nice day”. No, with his forgiveness he issued the challenge to “Go, and sin no more.” Without this challenge, why would anyone actually have to live a Christian life?
●I love that Jesus does not treat me the way I deserve. He forgives me even though I don’t deserve it. Although I hope he wasn’t too serious about forgiving my sins as I forgive others. That could be a problem.
●I love that he loves me so much that he would have undergone the same torture and death even if I were the only one to be redeemed. Amazing!
●I love that he gave us his Mother. I love that she, in turn, always points us back to her son asking us to “Do whatever he tells you.”
There, that was my ‘serious’ effort to name five things I love about Jesus. However, because I am juvenile, here are some other ‘less serious’ reasons.
- I love that Jesus told us that we will get these super-cool ninja bodies after the general resurrection that can walk through walls and stuff…cool.
- I love that he was smart enough not to get married! (Just joking honey!)
- I love that he was so fit (all that walking!) he could run circles around Buddha!
- I love that he did that super-cool mission impossible rubber-mask trick after he rose from the dead. Walking along, pulls off the mask, “Aha! I am really Jesus” and then poof! Wicked cool!
Sorry about that…
Anyway, I hereby officially meme..
Cum Grano Salis – Causa Nostrae Laetitiae – LAMLand – Kyrie Eleison – Natural Family Life
July 18, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I can’t believe it, my first meme. And this means I am only two degrees of separation from The Curt Jester. Woo-hoo!
Check out my meme post, here: http://naturalfamilylife.blogspot.com/2007/07/im-cool.html
July 19, 2007 at 5:05 am
Nice job on the meme. Very manly, mine is quitedfeminine of course, I had already been tagges at Cause of Our Joy, here it is:
http://cause-of-our-joy.blogspot.com/2007/07/five-things-i-love-about-jesus.html
July 19, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I liked the ninja one. And the fitter than Buddha point is a good one! 😀
Mine is up. Sorry, I couldn’t get it in to 5, so I have two bonus ones as well.
http://www.kaiserfam.com/kyrieeleison.html
July 19, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Sorry, I guess I should give the exact tag:
http://www.kaiserfam.com/2007/07/why-i-love-jesus.html
July 23, 2007 at 6:49 am
My apologies for my late response. I’ve been thinking about this one for some time but haven’t felt inspired. As is evident in my response
http://cumgranosalis70.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-i-love-jesus.html
I’ve thrown in a new meme and sent it back your way btw.
October 18, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Boab
Please refrain from the vulgarity. I don’t know what your problem is, but do not make your problem ours.
October 20, 2007 at 12:09 pm
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