When Jesus says "Be in the world not of the world" you know what that means for "Oscar Sunday" -- wacky (and surprisingly meaningful) worship in thrift store formal wear!
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Matthew 5:1-12
And Jesus said, "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
Jesus' "Beatitudes" were so far from proper rabbinical thinking they would have been heard, at least initially, as patently absurd. Not unlike something Groucho would gleefully espouse, and in a song??
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