Jesus as the Ultimate performance artist!

Jesus was always discipling as performance art. Teaching in every direction! Doing things, but aware that everyone was watching, so giving each person and culture, the part they needed to understand, step closer, and become-to enter in!
My friend got me thinking about Jesus as a performance artist today. That He was symbolizing what He was saying all the time, so it had both types of content in each gesture.

Teaching those who were close students and those who were watching from afar (including us). Using words and symbol in tandem. What a great teacher, aware that His Life itself was the ultimate teaching, so how He lived was also His message. He was constantly symbolizing Himself and pointing to His Father!

Nothing He did wasn’t symbolic as well. They were one in Him. Jesus was integrated! King David said, “I have become a living portent or symbol!”

Great fresh insight again today as I spoke with my art pastor friend in Rotterdam today! The prophets did is also of course, but even where Jesus slept was a teaching, and how fast He walked, and where. Each gesture a symbol! What a great artist. For Him symbol and idea weren’t separate. He was One, and is making us one like that!

Good reminder today! Love chatting with friends who have integrated their creativity and their spirituality, always gives me fresh insights!