The difference between Jesus and Christians

I was surprised by a survey of Christians' attitude to the death penalty. But it wasn't the individual results that surprised me as much as the difference between them.

40% of practicing Christians approve of it, but only 5% think Jesus would approve. Whatever the issue, that's a big difference - for a group of people who claim to be his followers.

If we're going to be telling the world to follow Jesus and become more like him - perhaps we'd do well to take that advice ourselves.