Sunday, June 27, 2010

Question 3: To which social strata would Jesus Blog or Twitter?

As well as the diversity of ethnicity, take into account the social structure of Jesus' audience.
They weren't stiff weirdos in robes with odd looks on their faces as depicted in Flannelgraph or Felt board illustrations from Sunday School. (If they came from the corner of the teacher's shoe box where their head had been folded in half they looked particularly weird.)

There were Roman soldiers and officers, Roman knights, Herod's soldiers and officers, taxmen, fishermen, labourers, farmers, tradies of all kinds – blacksmiths, wheelwrights, cartwrights, boat builders, sail makers, tent makers, carpenters, stone masons, shopkeepers, merchants, retired, housekeepers, slaves, tutors, kids, slave traders, wealthy landlords, temple officials, religious nuts, religious leaders, scribes and calligraphers, scholars, boof heads and rabble rousers – not to mention sick, deformed, tormented and lame people by the dozens.

And isn't that the population of the internet?

So what were they thinking and what would he say to them?

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