I don’t know if you’ve ever had an experience where, in one swift moment, your thinking and your assumptions are completely changed forever. That happened to me several years ago when I saw a video put together by our campus team. They were interviewing people on Imperial College Campus and simply asking them “who is Jesus”. They interviewed a student who didn’t know who Jesus was.
I don’t mean this person didn’t believe he’d really existed or they they thought he was just a good man.
This person had never heard the name Jesus.
When I was growing up most people I met knew some basics about who Jesus was but had chosen to reject him – often unfortunately because of some church experience they had which was boring, irrelevant, or hypocritical. I realized that I used to assume people knew something about Jesus and have rejected Jesus. I discovered in that moment – and in many conversations since then – that most people I meet in London are not anti-Jesus. Most people just have no clue who he is.
If Jesus is really the most important thing in the world. If he is really the only way. If I love the people around me. Then my job has to be to tell them about him.
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