Want to hear a song that challenges your culture?

This song is crazy. It challenges all Christians. When I listen to Christian Music, I want to hear about how awesome Jesus is. I don't WANT TO hear this. But I heard it, and its one of my favorite songs.

Check out these lyrics (with my thoughts in bold)


ALERT: IF YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THE WAY IT IS AND NOT HAVE GOD CHALLENGE THE WAY YOU LIVE AND TELL YOU ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, DON'T READ THIS

Todd Agnew - My Jesus
From the album Reflection Of Something

Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ,
Why do you look so much like the world?

I don't know, but I don't like it

Chorus:
Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant
So which one do you want to be?

Blessed are the poor in spirit, do we pray to be blessed with the
Wealth of this land
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness
Do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sand

ALL of my food is of this world

Chorus:

And who is this that you follow
This picture of the American dream
If Jesus was here would you walk right by on the other side
Or fall down and worship at His holy feet

Pretty blue eyes, curly brown hair and a clear complexion
Is how you see Him as He dies for Your sins
But the Word says He was battered and scarred
Or did you miss that part
Sometimes I doubt we’d recognize Him

Chorus:

Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church
The blood and dirt on His feet might stain the carpet

Wow, best 2 line of the song, I think My Jesus would be accepted at Cornerstone,
thats why its such a DIFFERENT church, and yet, this makes so much sense to me. 

But He reached for the hurting and despises the proud
I think He’d prefer Beal St. to the stained glass crowd
But I know that He can hear me if I cry out loud

I want to be like my Jesus
Can I be like You
I want to be like my Jesus

Lord, make me more like you. Make me hate the world and what It has made me. Make me someone who wants to be like you, and isn't worried about your blood staining the carpet at my church, but rather desiring for that to happen.