“I just can’t accept Christianity. I just can’t shut my eyes, turn off my brain, and take a blind leap of faith.” This is the objection of many who don’t embrace Jesus. Those of us who are Christians don’t help to address this objection when we respond to honest questions by saying, “You just have to have faith.” Statements like that communicate that faith is contrary to reason and evidence. When we take a good look at biblical faith, we learn that this is not the case. When God asks us to put our faith in something, He overwhelms us with reasons why we should believe.
This Sunday we will hear Jesus make some audacious claims about Himself. He will call all people to embrace Him as the only path to God. At no point, however, does He say, “Just believe,” or, “Just take a leap of faith.” Instead He calls witnesses to the stand. Bit by bit He chips away at the skepticism of His hearers. He invites them – and us – to put faith in Him based on solid reasons and evidence.
Dan
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