Easter Mass Sermon - Let Christianity BE WEIRD!

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 4.9.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Easter sermon on how different and unusual the Christian Faith in its Resurrection is,
and how it always has been.
The power of the Cross is in it's strange and revolutionary form, and not in a cute simple symbol.
The Cross turns the secular world upside down.

14 min YouTube link below:

Let Christianity BE WEIRD!

[MurphsLaw]

A different take on the most different thing
this world has ever seen.
Love the Cross...
The instrument of torture and death
that has been turned into the symbol of Everlasting Life.
Weird how that has happened.

[Rocco DiPippo]

My wife and I listen to Bishop Barron's Sunday sermon every week. This was one of the best I've heard. Afterwards a thought popped into my head: The Cross is the greatest "FU!" ever to the evil in this world. It is a strident symbol of rebellion against all the bad in the world and that includes all the evil leaders and institutions currently seeking to dehumanize, debase and enslave mankind. It is not a symbol of some syrupy "gentle," quaint philosophy.

I'll continue wearing my crucifix proudly with this new understanding of it.

[xp38]

If you read the Bible you see a theme of God flipping expectations of we humans throughout it. God’s ways are not mans. Using an instrument of torture and death as a symbol for life fits right in with that theme. Just look at some of what Jesus said....the first shall be last and the last shall be first....pray for your enemies

[nwrep]

The "let Christianity be weird" is an expression that Bishop Barron borrowed from the British historian Tom Holland who surmised that sentiment in an interview about his magnificent book "Dominion".

Here is a conversation between the two of them recently in which this topic came up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJszmO8Bhs&t=1238s