Bishop Alan points us to a video that highlights the difference in popular perception between Jesus and Christians. This person-on-the-street interview says that people both like Jesus and, to a surprising degree, get at least parts of his message and significance. When asked what people think and feel about Christians…well…we don’t fare so well.
As Bishop Alan says, “Good news is that 2,000 years into the resurrection, many people actually get it about Jesus, in spite of the distorting glass Christians have so often been in our blindness, folly and fallen nature. Bad news is that the distorting glass is often bottle green and six foot thick.”