Comments on: Jesus was an Immigrant

By: Rhythmic

Rhythmic — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:37:43 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Rhythmic.

By: Estuardo Rivera

Estuardo Rivera — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:21:01 +0000

I appreciate your article and your desire to open up dialogue regarding immigration. In my opinion Jesus was more a missionary than he was an immigrant.
On the “practical” side, he and his followers were called “Galileans” when they were outside of Galilee but their intent was not to take up permanent residence in Jerusalem. If that was the intention of the disciples Jesus wasn’t for that as we see in Mat 28.
On the theological side, Jesus dwelt among us only for a time to fulfill the mission of saving humanity. This in my opinion cannot be compared to an individual going to a different land to have access to a “better life.”
In regards to the building of the fence you state “Jesus would not have stood idly by in the face of this militant exclusion of immigrants”, I disagree. Perhaps the method is not the best but Jesus was a respector of the law even though he knew it was a broken system – “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.
I myself am an immigrant, I went to the US as a 14 year old boy from Guatemala with my family. I can recognize that for a few years I was in the US illegally, there is no other term to describe my being in the US w/out documents. However, I chose to work toward becoming a US citizen which I now am.
I do agree with the fact that we are called to be citizens of Gods kingdom.
Finally, one of the problems that many immigrants (specifically from Latin America) encounter is that they want to live in the US but not accept that as their home. Most are afraid that they are turning their backs on their home countries. I am in Guatemala as a missionary for four years, I haven’t forgotten about the land where I came from.

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By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:57:38 +0000

Great stuff, Mike!

I’m with you; it’s time to act.

By: markvans

markvans — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:11:17 +0000

Hey man… you don’t know me, but I’m a sort of virtual friend of Jason Evans. If you’d be interested, I’d love it if you would submit this as an article on Jesus Manifesto…we have a wide reader base and I’d love to get our readers digging into this. If you’re interested, there is an article submission link at the header of our site (www.jesusmanifesto.com). If you’re willing, could you maybe tweak it in such a way that you end with some thought-proking questions for readers to grapple with?

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By: j evans

j evans — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:31:06 +0000

Fantastic, Mike! You nailed it. Thank you for writing this!