Jesus has ideas about power — we should replace it with love.

Jesus has ideas about money — we should share it.

Jesus has ideas about the sick — we should take care of them.

Jesus has ideas about foreigners — we should welcome them.

Jesus has ideas about offenders — we should forgive them.

Jesus has ideas about outcasts — we should restore them.

Jesus has ideas about sinners — we should receive them.

Jesus has ideas about judging — we should stop doing it.

Jesus has ideas about politics — we call it the Sermon on the Mount.

To follow Christ is to differ from the crowd. To differ from the crowd is to be controversial. To be controversial by differing from the crowd is to run the risk of becoming a scapegoat yourself. And this is exactly what Jesus became—the innocent scapegoat who ended the injustice of scapegoating. Jesus became the sacrificial victim who ended violent sacrifice. In dying at the hands of ours sins, Jesus saved us from scapegoating and violent sacrifice.