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Let's suppose you toss a pebble into a quiet pool of water. What happens? There is a splash and immediately a series of concentric waves spread out wider and wider until they lap against every shore. The great events of history have made their splash like that, and today we live among the ripples. At the time of the immediate splash the witnesses to the event may be few. But when history begins to mark the ripples as they reach every shore, we realize just how great the event really was. Such was the case when the telephone was invented. Only Watson and Bell were actual witnesses, but the ripples have been felt in our homes. The resurrection of Jesus Christ made a big splash in history, but went little noticed at the time. A few women, a handful of Apostles, a group of people in an out-of-the-way nation -- they were the only ones to actually witness the resurrection. Yet the ripples of that event have washed against the shores of every land for nearly two thousand years! And the text talks about the church's early preaching about history's big splash.
- Crotts
Let's suppose you toss a pebble into a quiet pool of water. What happens? There is a splash and immediately a series of concentric waves spread out wider and wider until they lap against every shore. The great events of history have made their splash like that, and today we live among the ripples. At the time of the immediate splash the witnesses to the event may be few. But when history begins to mark the ripples as they reach every shore, we realize just how great the event really was. Such was the case when the telephone was invented. Only Watson and Bell were actual witnesses, but the ripples have been felt in our homes. The resurrection of Jesus Christ made a big splash in history, but went little noticed at the time. A few women, a handful of Apostles, a group of people in an out-of-the-way nation -- they were the only ones to actually witness the resurrection. Yet the ripples of that event have washed against the shores of every land for nearly two thousand years! And the text talks about the church's early preaching about history's big splash.
- Crotts
