I remember walking into an...
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I remember walking into an Armenian history class in college and the professor was standing on the desk, dressed like the skipper of a threemasted schooner. We were studying the effects shipping had on the economy of the eastern seaboard. This particular teacher loved to teach. He was overflowing with enthusiasm and he would go to extreme lengths to get his message across to his students. That's the way it is when you feel satisfyingly filled with information that you just can't wait to share with another.
The apostles were filled with earth shattering good news and they could not, even if they had wanted, stop themselves from proclaiming it to all they came in contact with. They knew they were the proud possessors of information that would transform lives. They knew that what they had to say would, in the end, make a better world. The question was not how to stop teaching, but why to stop.
Many years ago Albert Schweitzer wrote of Jesus, "He comes to us as one unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside he came to those who knew him not. He commands. And to those who obey him, whether they be wise or simple, he will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they pass through in his fellowship, and as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who he is."
The apostles were witnesses, they had to testify.
--Clarke
The apostles were filled with earth shattering good news and they could not, even if they had wanted, stop themselves from proclaiming it to all they came in contact with. They knew they were the proud possessors of information that would transform lives. They knew that what they had to say would, in the end, make a better world. The question was not how to stop teaching, but why to stop.
Many years ago Albert Schweitzer wrote of Jesus, "He comes to us as one unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside he came to those who knew him not. He commands. And to those who obey him, whether they be wise or simple, he will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they pass through in his fellowship, and as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who he is."
The apostles were witnesses, they had to testify.
--Clarke
