And if so, do you say ouch as loudly as I?
Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ
Then why do you look so much like the world?Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant
So which one do you want to be?Blessed are the poor in spirit
Or do we pray to be blessed with the wealth of this land
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness
Or do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sandCause my Jesus bled and died for my sins
He spent His time with thieves and sluts and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the rich
So which one do you want to be?Who is this that you follow
This picture of the American dream
If Jesus was here would you walk right by on the other side or fall down and worship at His holy feetPretty blue eyes and curly brown hair and a clear complexion
Is how you see Him as He dies for Your sins
But the Word says He was battered and scarred
Or did you miss that part
Sometimes I doubt we’d recognize HimCause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and the least of these
He loved the poor and accosted the comfortable
So which one do you want to be?Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church
The blood and dirt on His feet would stain the carpet
But He reaches for the hurting and despised the proud
I think He’d prefer Beale St. to the stained glass crowd
And I know that He can hear me if I cry out loudI want to be like my Jesus!
I want to be like my Jesus!Not a posterchild for American prosperity, but like my Jesus
You see I’m tired of living for success and popularity
I want to be like my Jesus but I’m not sure what that means to be like You Jesus
Cause You said to live like You, love like You but then You died for me
Can I be like You Jesus?
I want to be like my Jesus
~Todd Agnew
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#1 by Hope on May 6, 2006 - 8:49 am
This song really impacted me the first time I heard it, and it is always thought-provoking.
#2 by Curious Servant on May 6, 2006 - 1:59 pm
I hav en’t heard that one. I’m not sure that He would spend much time in churches. He seemed to always be among people.
Still, I’m sure that for many churches he wouldn’t fit in.
#3 by blestwithsons on May 7, 2006 - 8:21 am
Um – Curious Servant, churches are full of people. People that make up the Bride of Christ. Do you really think He would ignore His Bride? And yes, He spent time with all sorts of “sinners”. But they were usually sinners that were ready to repent and be transformed…
As I said on another site, I get really tired of the attitude that theives, liars, and the promiscuous are somehow closer to God and more in need of a Savior than someone like me. I was a middle class white-bread “good girl” and I needed to be saved too. Thank God He didn’t overlook me in His rush to get to the “bigger sinners” Todd Agnew’s Jesus would probably walk right by me. He loved the poor…. Yeah well, He loved the rich too.
I object to the entire tone of this song. Although He has a few valid points, the overall snobbishness of it – that he, Todd Agnew, is much more clued in to “His Jesus” then the majority of Christians who allegedly wouldn’t welcome Christ in their church… very arrogant of him.
Someone else pointed out that Keith Green’s Asleep in the Light hits this particular mark much better. Besides, Keith Green rocked!
Sorry to be a fly in the ointment Bethany -but hey, a little argument livens up a thread, eh?
#4 by Susanna on May 7, 2006 - 1:07 pm
Well I have not heard any of this music, but I was just wondering at the bad English! Sorry! I do whole heartedly agree with the sentiment that Christians are far too worldly and that many cannot be distinguished as different (many churches too sadly) But these things are all in the Bible anyway, and God’s word reflects these things much better than man can. The challenge about the ‘lowest sinners ‘ if you can say such a thing is to us. Will be reach out to them and love them in as Jesus did? But grace is indeed a great work in any soul. I, like blest, as a ‘middle class white girl with a respectable family ……etc but it took me longerto be saved than many around me from less appealing backgrounds.
#5 by Carol on May 8, 2006 - 6:17 pm
Blest, I think the point about the really “bad” sinners is that if they can be forgiven/redeemed/transformed then anyone can. So, yes the extremes are held up a lot. I never thought that those who were not among the sinful extreme would find that objectionable.
Someone once said that those of us who required the most grace from God in order to be forgiven/redeemed/transformed were the most able to extend grace in return. (My paraphrase.) Reckon that’s true?
#6 by mopsy on May 9, 2006 - 2:37 am
Several years ago we moved 250 miles and found ourselves looking for a new church home. During our search we attended several churches that didn’t seem to recognize their Groom very well—and they didn’t seem very concerned about his whereabouts.
The church as a whole is the Bride of Christ. There can be individual churches which aren’t Bridelike at all. Todd Agnew is singing about these churches, I believe.
#7 by Ray on May 30, 2006 - 5:27 pm
blestwithsons,
This song has conviction in it, he wasn’t saying Jesus hated rich people, and only heal the really bad offf.. he was talking about how the church is today, how most christians look down on sinners..
Look down on the sluts, liars, the thieves like the term “once a thief always a thief.”
Thats not true.. Jesus spent his time with theives, and if we are suppose to imitate christ, we should allow and embrace a change in people…