A Lesson About Easter and Jesus

Jaddeus Dempsey, a pastor at a church in Ohio invited kids to physically abuse him  in order to teach them a lesson about Easter and Jesus. 

Dempsey told students that anyone who wanted to spit in his face, slap him or cut him with a steak knife that he had provided could do so without repercussions. Students took him up on the offer, with many of the youths recording their actions on their cellphones. The students were “excited” to spit on Dempsey and one cut him on the neck.

Video of the kids spitting on him, slapping him, and (yes) cutting his back with a steak knife soon made its way to social media. 

The church is trying to defend this horrific gospel lesson.

The church said Dempsey wanted to explain to them about this guy named Jesus, who thousands of years ago, he was put on trial for a crime he didn’t commit. And he was beaten. He was broken. He was whipped. He was crucified, and he died as an innocent man… He chose to allow it to happen…Dempsey’s illustration was meant to share that message of love.

We aren’t going to show the video here, but if you really want to see this, we have the link...

But we warn you, it’s disturbing.

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The Movie Contradiction

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We have no problem with people who believe in prayer, it's their business.

But there is a movie encouraging people to take their heads out of the sand.

The movie is Contradiction, a documentary, written and directed by Jeremiah Camara.

This film examines the correlation between the all the churches that are out there and the poverty in African American communities across the United States.

As Camara asks Martin Luther King III how can there be so many social problems in black communities when there is a church on every corner, he is left speechless. 

Camara also points out that the most common prayer postures are in fact slave postures—hands together when shackled, kneeling, begging for mercy from a master who controls everything.

In the documentary we hear a preacher say, “Self-sufficiency will never work!”

“Depend on Jesus for everything."

It even says so it the good book, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).