Ed Stetzer’s Super Bowl He Gets Us Commercial is the Most Blasphemous One Yet, Depicts Jesus as Affirming of Homosexuality and Abortion - by Publisher

Found here. Our comments in bold.
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On one hand we agree with the unnamed "Publisher" that the He Gets Us campaign often presents an inaccurate/incomplete picture of Jesus. On the other hand we understand the campaign's aim to portray Jesus in a way that contradicts the stereotypes non-believers often have. 

We don't think the campaign always does this accurately. We were critical of another of their commercials here.

However, our intent today is not to critique the He Gets Us commercial, but rather critique "Publisher's" Scriptureless critique.

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The commercial depicts Jesus washing the feet of homosexuals, people at abortion clinics, and every other sin, (Jesus does not appear in the commercial.

"Every other sin?" This is an odd statement. The commercial shows at least 12 scenes:

• A living room
• An alley
• A school hallway
• A desert scene
• Outside a "family planning" center
• A kitchen
• An oil field
• a bus stop
• A front yard
• On concrete steps
• A rural front porch
• On a beach 

We wonder which of these scenes is a sin and even, how a scene can be sinful...)

 and then ends with the caption, “Jesus Didn’t Teach Hate, He Washed Feet.” Watch:

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Of course, this is completely and totally stupid and completely twists the entire meaning of Jesus washing feet. When Jesus washed feet, it was illustrative of the internal cleansing he does to people He would save on the cross.  (The Bible reference for these claims must be a secret? 

Let's quote the only place in the Bible where Jesus washed feet: 

Jn. 13:12-16 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me `Teacher’ and `Lord’, and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

There are several things to note:

• Jesus was washing the feet of His disciples, not sinners.
• He did this as example, not to approve of their sin
• the example was one of servanthood, not to illustrate internal cleansing
• He commanded His disciples to wash one another's feet

"Publisher" completely misses the actual Bible teaching.)

 

He doesn’t just wash people and allow them to continue in sin—he cleanses them from their sin and calls them to “go and sin no more.” ("Publisher" quotes a snippet of an unreferenced verse:

Jn. 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Jn. 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

The first verse is about the adulterous women who was going to be stoned. Jesus did not wash her feet.

The second verse is regarding the healing of the man who laid by the pool of Bethesda waiting for the water to be stirred. Jesus didn't wash his feet either.)

This commercial, like every other left-wing Bible-twisting propaganda, paints Jesus as an antinomian who doesn’t care if you continue in sin. (Jesus does not appear in the commercial. 

Presumably, everyone washing the feet of others are Christians. And clearly the intent was to present Christians as servants who are not so holy that they would refuse to wash someone's feet.)

The most hateful thing you can do is lead sinners to believe that they are perfectly fine and right with God despite their continued unrepentant sin. (This is the crux of the issue. Is washing someone's feet giving approval for their sin? More specifically, when Jesus did nice things to people, was that giving approval to their sin? Conversely, should we keep separate from sinners to make sure they know we disapprove of their sin?

Is it important [or biblical] to make sure sinners know we disapprove of their sin? 

If "Publisher" thinks any of these questions should be answered "yes," he will need to quote the Bible verses that tell us these things.

Since "Publisher's" main problem seems to be that foot washing is something that Jesus wouldn't do for sinners, let's see how Jesus actually dealt with sinners. First, the calling of Matthew:

Mt. 9:9-13 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and `sinners’?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: `I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ [Hosea 6:6] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Notice who disapproved of Jesus being nice to sinners: The Pharisees.

Now for the woman who washed Jesus' feet with her tears:

Lk. 7:36-39 Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, 38 and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is — that she is a sinner.”

Notice who disapproved of Jesus being nice to sinners: The Pharisees.

What was Jesus' attitude about position? It's certainly different than "Publisher:"

Mt. 20:25-28 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus' very life was one of servanthood [Ph. 2:7] and taking the lowest position at the table [Lk. 14:10]. He was invariably kind to sinners while simultaneously calling them to repentance [Mt. 4:17, Mk. 1:15, Lk. 5:32], but He repeatedly attacked the Pharisees for their hypocrisy [like almost all of Matthew chapter 23]. Thus "Publisher" not only is wrong about footwashing, he sounds more like the Pharisees and their faux holiness.

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