If God had a name what would it be?
And would you call it to his face?
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?
And would you call it to his face?
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?
Christians believe that the miracle of the incarnation was that God was one of us, and that the life and death and resurrection has special significance.
C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia books) put it like this:
“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 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 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, 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, Mere Christianity.
As we go through the season of Lent leading up to Easter, we're going to consider this at our gathering on 4.30pm Sunday 16th of March (Mernda Uniting) What's the significance of Jesus Christ and what do Christians believe happened at that first Easter. Come join us!