WWJD?

or, Was Jesus Crazy?

[W]hen we do what Jesus claims we should, we reject so much that the world suggests we hold dear. Sounds like throwing your life away, doesn’t it?
Reject your family.
Be poor on purpose.
Give all your stuff away and wander around (i.e., be homeless).
Talk to an invisible…something, out there…somewhere.
Love other people, including the ones who may even try to kill you, and even succeed in doing it.
Yell at fig trees.
Subvert the laws of your culture.
Challenge the leaders in your government.
Challenge the religious figures who know the rules at the heart of the religious culture you come from.
It’s really no wonder so many Christians lean on selling the “ticket out of hell” angle so often. It’s so much simpler, it appeals to the human instinct for self-preservation, and it’s less, well, crazy than the alternative.