{"id":34,"date":"2009-11-12T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkingchristianly.thestockdells.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T03:54:24","slug":"a-disturbing-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbing Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was in Cleveland, OH on business. \u00a0As we entered the downtown area in our taxi we were confronted with a large billboard with a disturbing image. \u00a0One of Nike’s hot endorsement deals is with LeBron James, the star player for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. \u00a0This billboard<\/a> is a celebration of LeBron’s MVP season last year.<\/p>\n

The text on the billboard is “We are all witnesses.” \u00a0Having just used Peter’s sermon in Acts 2 as a sermon text last Sunday, these words were very familiar, and LeBron’s pose has a disturbing similarity to what Peter refers to himself and the others of the twelve apostles having witnessed.<\/p>\n

The outstretched arms and the face turned toward heaven bears an eerie similarity to Jesus’ posture on the cross, and the choice of words could not have been accidental either, a word for word quote of how the English Standard Version renders Acts 2:32 “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we are all witnesses.” \u00a0This is a stark reminder of the nature and objects of worship in our culture today, as well as our culture’s poor use of words and concepts like “Savior.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I was in Cleveland, OH on business. \u00a0As we entered the downtown area in our taxi we were confronted with a large billboard with a disturbing image. \u00a0One of Nike’s hot endorsement deals is with LeBron James, the star player for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. \u00a0This billboard is a celebration of LeBron’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","category-popular-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestockdells.com\/thinkingchristianly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}