I am sitting here scanning through my newly acquired “History of the Christian Church” by Philip Schaff. Upon scanning through the first volume (there are eight in total) I ran across this marvelous quote which, in my opinion, paints a beautiful picture of the Church as she sits in perspective to history.
After finishing Giglio’s book earlier this week, I need to write down some of the highlights before they slip from my mind.
The chapter “the little leader” which talked about John the Baptist was the chapter I think I liked the most. It helped me think of John’s position. Here was this guy who had this incredible and popular ministry and along comes Jesus who steals his thunder in a sense. What is so incredible is how that didn’t seem to bother John. He knew who he was and what his mission was about and who he was to point to…..HIM. Just from my own experience and observation I have seen how it is so incredibly easy to lose that perspective on what we are really about. Way to often it’s more about our “program” or campaign or whatever is cool and exciting to us at the moment! But we have to remember that we are really just “voices crying in the wilderness”. (more…)