Actually, I found the ‘message’ of St. Matthews-in-the-City just as shocking and saddening as the billboard itself:
‘He said the true importance of Christmas “is in the radical hospitality Jesus offered to the poor, the despised, women, children, and the sick, and says: ‘this is the essence of God’. His death was a consequence of the offensive nature of that hospitality and his resurrection a symbolic vindication”.’
HOSPITALITY? SYMBOLIC?!?!?!?!
no concept of salvation at all...
(and in addition to being sick from worry over New Zealander souls in danger of damnation, now I can’t get the musical number ‘Be Our Guest’ from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast out of my head)
Actually, I found the ‘message’ of St. Matthews-in-the-City just as shocking and saddening as the billboard itself:
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Yes not something that would attract a Christian to attend a service there...
“His death was a consequence of the offensive nature of that hospitality and his resurrection a symbolic vindication”.’ “
Say what ???