Liar, Lunatic or Lord?

I've been amazed that the warm weather has brought many of you out of the woodwork and down to the Grotto. Last week the Gospel Journey was about who Jesus is.

This quote was included:

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. 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.¹

How did that make you feel? Just as our study of "Crazy Love" has said, there are no lukewarm Christians. Who do you say Jesus is?

Prayer Request: Many of you know that our own Bryce suffered from a mysterious lung collapse this past week and is out of school until Thursday. Prayers, cards, and gifts--I'm sure--would be welcome.

Blessings, The B.D.F.


Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), Mere Christianity, revised edition, New York,
Macmillan/Collier, 1952, p. 55 ff.