Some of you may remember...
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Some of you may remember that when Ike was president of the United States he never liked to give a speech unless it had a purpose. Speaking just to speak was not what President Eisenhower was interested in. His White House speech writer would say that after the drafts were prepared he would go in to meet with the president and go over the speech.
While it is a popular image of President Eisenhower that he was genial to the point of insipience, Ike was a pointed questioner and knew exactly what he wanted to say. Ike would always say at some point in these meetings with his speech writer Arthur Larson, "Well Arthur, what's the Q.E.D.?" Which stands for the Latin quod erat demonstrandum; meaning "That which was to be demonstrated or proved." Ike would tell Larson, "Why give a speech, if you don't want the audience to take away a specific message?"
Why give a prophecy unless we can gain the point ... Incarnation is not just an idea, or a theological construction but a fact!
While it is a popular image of President Eisenhower that he was genial to the point of insipience, Ike was a pointed questioner and knew exactly what he wanted to say. Ike would always say at some point in these meetings with his speech writer Arthur Larson, "Well Arthur, what's the Q.E.D.?" Which stands for the Latin quod erat demonstrandum; meaning "That which was to be demonstrated or proved." Ike would tell Larson, "Why give a speech, if you don't want the audience to take away a specific message?"
Why give a prophecy unless we can gain the point ... Incarnation is not just an idea, or a theological construction but a fact!
