While I was preparing for this week\u2019s message I came across this paragraph which I don\u2019t think is going to make it in (doesn\u2019t fit the flow), but it was so good that I feel compelled to share it with you:<\/p>\n
Dorothy Sayers in her book Unpopular Opinions<\/i> wrote: <\/p>\n
Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was \u201ca gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners\u201d \u2014 or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment \u201cThou shalt not work\u201d was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, \u201cThou shalt not play.\u201d<\/p>\n
So there.<\/p>\n
Now that I look at it again it may make it in after all\u2026 come and find out!<\/p>\n
By the way, this week we\u2019re continuing our \u201cJesus Is Asking You\u2026\u201d series of messages with the pivotal question Who Do You Say That I Am?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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