To try to reduce Jesus Christ to a bite-sized morsel of another “good teacher” so we can swallow what we like or spit Him out whole just won’t work. Listen to what a former agnostic named C. S. Lewis had to say about Jesus. “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a mad man or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

In the book “Ten Scientists Look at Life,” George Schwartzer writes: “Man has changed his world in a remarkable way, but has not been able to alter himself. Since this problem is basically a spiritual one, and since man is naturally bent toward evil (as history attests), the sole way that man can be changed is by God. Only if a man commits himself to Christ Jesus and submits himself to the Holy Spirit for guidance can he be changed. Only in this miraculous transformation rests hope for the atom-awed, radio-activity-ruffled world of our day and its inhabitants.”

What’s so special about Jesus? He was sinless—so He can forgive your sins and mine. He loves you unconditionally because as John Stott said: “Jesus was sinless because He was selfless. Such selflessness is love. And God is love.”

Jesus asked His disciples two questions. “Who do other men say that I am?” (They gave the various opinions.) Then “Who do you say that I am?” When Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”, Peter was praised for passing the test. Now, the Spirit of God poses that question from Jesus to you and me—“Who do you say that I am?” Ask God to forgive your sins and He will do it. Invite Jesus to enter and rule your heart and life and He will do it. Begin to read the gospels and the Holy Spirit will turn on the lights. Find other believers who love Christ and the Scriptures, and your new faith won’t die out like a single log placed on the hearth. Logs on fire together in the fireplace burn bright with warmth and light.

And one final request. Write me an e-mail on the "contact us" page of our website and let us know you have made your decision to trust Jesus Christ as your Savior and follow Him as your Lord. My prayer for you—wherever you are around this hurting world—is that you will discover more and more—day by day—what is so special about Jesus!

"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
The ST. PAUL SCHOOL, with Frank Eiklor, Eileen Young and Cecilia Contreras