Sorry I haven't posted much this week. If you wonder why just look at my profile! :-) It has been hectic. However, I wanted to post a few quotes from a book I highly recommend. The book is titled, "Jesus Among Other Gods," by a man named Ravi Zacharias. I consider him to be one of the foremost Christian thinkers of our day. There is a link to his website on the side. I encourage you to visit RZIM.org. The quotes are below as well as the ISBN number of the book if you would like to read more of it."Have you ever experienced the confusion of a seemingly senseless configuration on a poster that appears to be random shapes or dots? As you continue to stare at it and tilt your head one way or the other, a word or a picture suddenly leaps out from that cluttered pattern. We call it a cryptogram .
"Something fascinating happens once you have seen that the dots or shading were just masking the real message. You start tilting your head in various positions in an attempt to lose the ordered pattern and regain the initial disorder. The latter exercise comes into play only because you start wondering how it was possible in the first place to miss the word. When the eye has captured the image, it interprets the message for what it is. When the eye loses the message, disarray dominates.
"May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood. Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction. The result is treacherous.
"Jesus Christ came to challenge every culture on the face of the earth so that we might gain a perspective from higher ground."
"Something fascinating happens once you have seen that the dots or shading were just masking the real message. You start tilting your head in various positions in an attempt to lose the ordered pattern and regain the initial disorder. The latter exercise comes into play only because you start wondering how it was possible in the first place to miss the word. When the eye has captured the image, it interprets the message for what it is. When the eye loses the message, disarray dominates.
"May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood. Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction. The result is treacherous.
"Jesus Christ came to challenge every culture on the face of the earth so that we might gain a perspective from higher ground."
(found on p. 33 of "Jesus Among Other Gods" by Ravi Zacharias, ISBN:0-8499-4263-2)
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