Chris Seay - September 9, 2012
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John 1:1-18
Philippians 2:1-11
"Jesus promised his disciples three things: That they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble." – G.K. Chesterton
"We're more popular than Jesus now." – John Lennon, Beatle (1940-80)
"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 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. 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, British author (1898-1963)
"From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother." – Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher (1878-1965)
"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." – Albert Einstein, physicist and atheist (1879-1955)
"I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history." – H.G. Wells, British author (1866-1946)