The Worship Quote of the Week for (01/18/2005):

Lunatic, Liar, or Lord? Today’s WORSHIP QUOTE sets forth one of the strongest arguments against the modern-day notion that Jesus was merely a great moral teacher. The author is C. S. Lewis, a scholar and author who came to faith in Jesus Christ rather late in life. He went on to be one of the most effective Christian apologists of the last century. LUNATIC, LIAR, OR LORD? 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 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, in MERE CHRISITIANITY (New York: Macmillan, 1952), p. 56. [Jesus came as the God/Man! When Jesus spoke, God was speaking. Take another look at Philippians 2:5-11—“that at the name of Jesus . . ..” Have a great week, Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky carlstam@aol.com www.carlstam.org www.sbts.edu/icw =========================== WORSHIP QUOTE OF THE WEEK: To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view a complete index of worship quotes, please visit http://www.wqotw.org ===========================