During a conference on comparative religions, religious experts were debating what doctrine, if any, was unique to Christianity. Upon entering the room, C S Lewis learned of the debate and responded: “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.”
Many people feel that the message of Christianity should be relegated to the fiction shelf of life, that it is really just like the 'fairies at the bottom of the garden'.
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is critical to the validity of Christianity. If He did rise from the dead on the third day His claims to be the Son of God are vindicated.
As I stood in the shop queue one evening waiting to be served, I got talking to the woman behind me. She asked what my job was, and I told her I taught people about the Bible. At this point she looked at me as though I had just sprouted another head.
When a sports pundit says that a team must “redeem” themselves, straight away we understand they must make amends for a recent underperformance to rescue their reputation, or hopes of winning.
“The safety card is in your seat pocket. Please study it carefully.” That’s how the little announcement went just before the plane took off, and as usual, nobody bothered, no one cared. However, during the flight there was a problem.
