We sometimes need to adjust our image of Jesus.

To be in mission is to get al little dirty. Just like Jesus!

Rather than an angelic figure with manicured hands, let’s think more of the calloused hands of a carpenter and one who spit and made mud and then placed it on the eyes of a blind man (see John 9:off).

To be in mission is to get a little dirty.  Just like Jesus.

That is also the point of this interesting post on the CNN Belief Blog, “Jesus Was A Dirty, Dirty God”

Here’s a link: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/05/my-take-jesus-was-a-dirty-dirty-god/