To Be Like Jesus

This is a great list I came across and add my twist to some of them, this is something to think about, and act on, what it would be like to live like Jesus.

1. Get baptized by the craziest guy in town.

2. Say and do things that are guaranteed to make religious people want to kill you. Repeat again, and again, and again, and again, and again and don't stop unless forced.

3. Do amazing things for people and ask them to not tell anyone.

4. Hang out with the most despised, marginalized, looked down upon, and shunned people you can find. Prostitutes, gang members, druggies, est.

5. When possible, forgive and restore people, even if they betrayed you.

6. Live in a way that provokes gossip.

7. Win the most grace competition.

8. Keep the party going, hang out at the local bar, and buy a round or two.

9. Serve people (note: nose plugs may be required).

10. If you're sad cry.

11. Empower people to do the extraordinary.

12. Act like a rock star in a hotel church.

13. Radically simplify theology. “Explain it to me like I was a 10 year old.”

14.Break human-made religious laws. Repeat consistently.

15.Prioritize the most important over the important.

16. Let women with questionable backgrounds pay your bills.

17. Be courageously willing to demonstrate your love for others.

18. So trust God to rescue people that you don't feel compelled to run around spouting off predictable religious language.

19. Reject the secular-religious dichotomy by treating all of life as the place where God works and spiritual things occur.

20. Be bold on things that matter, but always be driven by genuine love for God and others.

21. Join Scripture to life and life to Scripture, allowing both what God has said with what he is saying to permeate your thoughts and life.

22. Expect, as Jesus did, that living in a fallen world will always make you susceptible to hypocrisy. (What makes him amazing is that he never succumbed to this, but others often did, which is why he warned them/us.)

23. Point out the harmful tendencies of the religious (but do so in a way that demonstrates that you are not bitter but rather angry at those whose ways misrepresent God and hurt people).