What would the Social Media universe have looked like if the people watching Jesus riding into Jerusalem were busy on their phones? Well, if anyone ever goes back in a time machine and gives Jesus’ disciples iPhones, maybe these sort of things are what you would see…
- It all started when Jesus, en route to Jerusalem, tweeted two disciples an odd request…
- One of them got right on Facebook to the local Donkey Owner. He needed a little persuading…
- One of the disciples, Simon the Zealot was grumbling to James behind Jesus’ back. He expected a grand procession and an armed revolution, not a deliberately humble, peaceful donkey parade:
- Meanwhile, as crowds gather, naturally Peter’s first reaction is to make awkwardly bad puns on Snapchat…
- Later on, Jesus is safely in Jerusalem. Yet a Pharisee drops an unexpected bombshell on the Facebook status of Mary of Bethany, one of Jesus’ female followers…
Any ideas? Post your own tweets or Facebook posts in the style of Jesus’ disciples, or the Pharisees or crowd, on Palm Sunday or Easter week on our Facebook page, or Twitter @LeprosyIreland. We shall feature the best ones in this coming week’s posts!
The Moral of the Story:
Palm Sunday is more than just parades and palm crosses. It’s about Jesus choosing the path of peace and humility instead of violence and self-promotion. It’s about how influence and authority can be used for good rather than abused to gain control. Unfortunately, in a world where 23 million people have been killed in wars, since the end of World War Two, and 3 out of 4 fatalities in war are women and children, have we really learnt anything? Will violence ever end violence, or war end war?
Image Credit: By Kelvinsong (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
