Jesus, Friend of Sinners

In support of Anne Rice, and a host of other people who haven't stopped loving God but are having trouble fitting in with the church (aka organized religion). This is my official video response to the video "Anne Rice Rejects Christ Goes to HELL" posted by stopgoing2hell.

Regarding the song playing in the background, it is Bride Song by Brian Healey / Dead Artist Syndrome. Here are the lyrics:

Jesus, I love you, but don't understand your wife,
She wears such funny make-up, and she always wants to fight,
Every time I turn my back she's waiting with a knife,
In my world of black and gray she argues shades of white.

Jesus, I love you, but I don't understand your wife,
She wears such funny make-up, and she always wants to fight,
Jesus, I love you, but I don't understand your wife,
She wears such funny make-up, and she always wants to fight.

She loves capital punishment, and nuclear arms,
Then screams about the right to life and the Grand Old Party's charms,
She's always burning bridges, even ones she's standing on,
When I try to tell her, she says, "to you, I don't belong."

Jesus, I love you, but I don't understand your wife,
She wears such funny make-up, and she always wants to fight,
Jesus, I love you, but I don't understand your wife,
She wears such funny make-up, and she always wants to fight.

You're always hearing me complain, and you're listening once more,
I know everything your bride's against, but I don't know what she's for,
So, don't mistake my anger for bitterness and strife,
'cuz on bended knees I'm begging you please "Jesus, talk to your wife!"

(The New Testament refers to the church as the "Bride of Christ" --- thus the song title and content.)

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[makaio726]

Jesus hung out with sinners to show them the way..and when they did experience him the ones that accepted him didnt continue to live the same sinful lifestyles as before they met him, they followed him and his teachings. Anne Rice has missed this point i think.

[pastorZ]

@makaio726 There's a saying "Jesus loves you just the way you are; but he loves too much to leave you the way you are." Good words, methinks; but key in that phrase is JESUS. Jesus' love changes us (Romans 2:1-4 esp. v4 and 1 John 4:19). My job is to preach Christ - crucified and resurrected from the dead - for God so loved the world...and Christ will do his work in the hearts of those who receive both as Savior and Lord.

[omtara]

Great video, but Samaritan wasn't a religion, it was an ethnicity.

[pastorZ]

@omtara Samaritan was actually both an ethnicity and a religion. Samaritans were mixed Jewish/Assyrian ancestry and considered spiritual heretics by the Jews (see John 4:19-22 and Wikipedia for a good, detailed summary).

[phildonpatria]

the painters of that picture dint see jesus they created it they dont know if the people are sad and happy

[earthalien77]

Nice..

[Angrysean8]

You can be sure that He wasn't happy with the priests of that time, they set up coin exchange, you had to buy "temple money" to use to buy sacrificial animals and such and the exchange rate was far from fair, selling and buying forgiveness, also they shunned the sick and poor. This was an abomination to the Lord. He was not unhappy with them for preaching against sin.

[runtolight]

I'm with him! It is much more fun to hang out with people like me, as I'm still a sinner but trying to be more like Him.

[Inkbl00d]

Well said, my friend. Well said.

[JessyBee1313]

you totally get it. Thanks for making this :)