'You simply cannot disentangle Jesus from miracles. Scholars . . . (have) tried very hard to discover a nonmiraculous Jesus. They utterly fail. Every single strand of material in the Gospels shows Jesus as Someone who was different in His powers from other people. Through Him God acted in a way impossible to understand if we think of Him simply as a good Man. The miracles begin at His birth, without human father. They continue in His ministry; miracles of healing and of exorcism, nature miracles (such as His feeding of the multitude or His walking on the sea in a storm), and supremely His raising from the dead Lazarus, the widow of Nain's son, and Jairus's daughter. Last of all comes the greatest of miracles . . . His own resurrection from the grave - not just to a further span of life but to a new quality of life over which death has no power. That is the only Jesus for whom there is any shred of evidence - a remarkable Being exercising unheard-of powers . . . He exhibited miraculous powers, and not once or twice but continually.' Michael Green

In the year of our Lord 2010 more than ever we need to see God the Father, in Jesus His Son, through the power of His Holy Spirit changing our world, changing the lives of people in our world, rescuing the perishing - and they are everywhere - in our world. 'Jesus STILL is the answer for the world today!' Will we who have met, been changed by, and - however imperfectly -follow Jesus allow ourselves to be made and used by God as His ambassadors to share the message of 'Glorious Freedom' to our very enslaved world?

Posted by Steve Mounts at 6:35 AM

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