There is something about the Good News of Jesus that is profoundly subversive to the status quo. In allowing himself to be lynched by his community, Jesus focuses a penetrating light on the systems of justice, judgement and righteousness. It becomes inescapably clear that when humans pronounce judgement (claiming it to be the justice of God no less!) it might just as easily be the arbitrary victimisation of the innocent!
What happens to the pillars of society when that which we have self-assuredly believed to be absolute is revealed to be arbitrary? If what has passed for our knowledge of good and evil ends in the murder of God, what are we to do instead?
And what are the consequences of this leaven of the Gospel in every society it touches?
