“You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis wrote those words in his book Mere Christianity in order drive home the point that it is foolish for anyone to have a casual response to Jesus. We can be horrified. We can be amazed. But we can’t shrug our shoulders. Yet many of us, both Christians and non-Christians, respond to Jesus and His call for our lives with casual indifference. This is a problem!
This Sunday we will look at a passage in John’s gospel, and we will see a group of people struggling to decide what they think of Jesus. As we walk through this passage, we will each be compelled to come face to face with Jesus and respond to Him with appropriate gravity.
Dan
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