Respect for the Word of God
On this past Saturday, one of the men in our Church and I went knocking on doors to invite folks to our Church for Easter. A very gracious Muslim gentleman welcomed us into his wonderful home. We were exploring my statement that Jesus Christ claimed to be more than one of the Four Great Teachers, but that He actually claimed to be God. This leaves us with the dilemma of the ages - either Jesus is God or He is a fraud - there can be no middle ground. We engaged in this discussion gingerly and respectfully. And He brought me four books that he called "holy books." Among them were the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and of course the Koran. He even had the New Testament translated into his mother tongue Swahili. As we browsed these books, I was taken back by the fact that he a) washed his hands before handling any of them b) kept every corner that had torn off of them because it was sacred. His treatment of these books, even those he felt were tainted from their original state, was all based upon the fact that he believed they had come straight from the mouth and hand of God. As a conservative Southern Baptist, I believe that. Do I treat God's Word with the same level of respect as this gentleman treated his four holy books? You talk about a convicting afternoon.