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Dr. Jeff Hensley Pastor Kings Mountain Baptist Church Fhrvreh cor rer ps ‘Bring in a copy of your church bulletin & get 1 FREE Appetizer per table! "li If our faith is genuine... In most church buildings there are artist’s depictions of Jesus, and it seems that US). #1 all believers tend to wonder what Jesus ac- tually looked like and what it must have been like to look into his eyes. | more common qualities that we think of have to do more with Jesus’ character and personality than his physical features. For example, Jesus’ qualities of meek- ness and mildness certainly come to mind, and most of us probably think of Jesus’ love of children. I expect the Sunday School or Church School literature of most denomi- nations has pictures of Jesus taking the lit- tle children into his lap in a loving fashion. We may also enjoy those plots that depict Jesus as a carrier of cuddly lambs, or as The Kings Mountain Herald the calm and assured shepherd of a flock that is traversing green hills under a blue sky. We likely also imagine him with a smile on his face, or even being handsome (whatever “handsome” is to Yet, the Janeiro. As recent as April of this year, though, it was reported that in a small Polish town called “Swiebodzin,” a group of devpted vol- unteers and others have been constructing a physical image of Jesus in the form of a 170-foot concrete statue. This statue depicts Jesus with his arms outstretched, and it is even bigger than the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that is located in Rio de Father Sylwester Zawadzki, a Roman Catholic priest, is the chief architect of this three million dollar project, and although it is a colossal figure, not everybody thinks this is the best way to present Jesus to the world. Many of the local people in Swiebodzin, in fact, are embarrassed by this statue and several seem to see it as a waste of precious resources. Despite the fact that the Jesus statue is a tourist attraction, one young resident says, Wednesday, November 16, 2011 “I think we could spend that money far better” because “we need! schools, hospitals and better roads.” All of this makes one wonder just what image of Jesus is most! helpful. Is it the depiction of the child-in-the-lap Jesus, the lamb-1 our Lord. RI Sunday - Thursday Featured Church of the Week: Christian Freedom Church KINGS MOUNTAIN Long Creek Presbyterian Church * 701 Long Creek Road 704-629-4406 Love Valley Baptist Church _ 2032 Bethlehem Road 704-730-0075 Macedonia Baptist Church 1101 S. Battleground Avenue 704-739-6811 We support our local churches. Midview Baptist Church 703 Margrace Road 704-739-6711 Mount Zion Missionary Bap- tist Church 220 N. 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I suspect that each one has its own use and its own value; for certain times or situations, and maybe there is a deeper spiri-, tual truth in this reality, for Jesus is more than all of our images! or depictions and no one, single painting or statue can fully con- tain or depict what Jesus means to those of us who name him as; : This may also be why Jesus chose to continue his work in and! through his people — his Church — for the fact is that Jesus is ac- tually in each and every one of his followers. More than anything else, this is the gift that God’s people have to give to the world, for if our faith is genuine then Jesus is speaking through our’ words, touching through our hands, and living through ot our lives. ww
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