Title Bird Human Image
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1 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
2 As he was teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath, when many heard it, they were astonished, saying, Where did this man get these things?
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph, and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?" And they rejected Jesus.
4 Jesus said to them, "A prophet has no respect except in his own country, in his own kind, and in his own household."
5 He could do no power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
6 He marveled at their unbelief, and went about all the villages, teaching. (Mark 6:1-6)
When he becomes the Son of God, he becomes a missionary, not a professional. Today, whether we are politicians, businessmen, writers, artists, or whatever we do, we cannot be trusted unless they believe and work as part of the mission to save the world through their work. The other day, I heard from an audience that a Catholic priest giving a lecture on consumer union issues said that if Christianity did not solve the problem of poverty in this country, the country might not need a church. It's true. If a Christian politician in this country does not establish the order of democracy in this country, he is not a son of God.
Also, when the people of this town saw Jesus, they said, "This is the brother of James Joseph, Judas Simon, and aren't his sisters with us?" But now Jesus said, "Who are my brothers and sisters and my parents? All those who do the will of my Father in heaven are my parents and brothers and sisters."
The society of the new man, Jesus, is a common society of mankind, not a partisan of any narrow-minded party. We know that until this day, wars have been waged in humans because of this factional human, blood-related human beings, and human beings among themselves, and fights and quarrels have continued. The new human image is the image of a person living in the ethics of agape, out of the consciousness of the faction, out of the consciousness of each other, and out of the consciousness of blood ties. While we are building a democracy today, we cannot welcome party members who hate other people's factions in order to love their own factions passionately. This new human figure of Jesus is well expressed as his death on the cross. We hope that this self-sacrificing love will become the basis of our social ethics today. In order to form such a social ethics, we must build a new human image.