Lunatic, Liar, or Lord?
LUNATIC, LIAR, OR LORD? A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. 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, in MERE CHRISITIANITY (New York: Macmillan, 1952), p. 56. [Jesus came as the God/Man! When Jesus spoke, God was speaking. Take another look at Philippians 2:5-11—“that at the name of Jesus . . ..” Have a great week, Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky carlstam@aol.com www.carlstam.org www.sbts.edu/icw =========================== WORSHIP QUOTE OF THE WEEK: To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view a complete index of worship quotes, please visit http://www.wqotw.org =========================== |