From this week's church bulletin regarding "Who is Jesus & Why Does It Matter?"
"Tell me your Christology, and I will tell you who you are." Karl Barth
Question: "How is Jesus different from other religious leaders? Answer: In a sense asking this question is sort of like asking how the sun differs from other stars in our solar system - the point being that there are no other stars in our solar system! Unknown
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. 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. Bu 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
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