St. J & B Presents

▪ A moment of sudden revelation or insight▪ A season of the church year

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January 5th:

“The Skeptical Student”January 12th:

“The Insider & the Outcast”January 19th:

“The Grieving Sisters”January 26th:

“The Wedding Party”

Biblical and Personal Stories of

Encounters with God

January 2014portcolborneanglican.org

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The Grieving Sisters

John 11

Mary & Martha

Mary

Martha

Two Sisters… Two Responses

John 11:21 and 11:32

Mary & Martha

“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Jesus as GODResponse #1

John 11:25

“I am the Resurrection and

the Life.”

“My Lord and My God.” (John 20:28)

“I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening.”

(Luke 10:18)

“Son, your sins are forgiven.” (Mark 2:5)

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

(Matthew 16:15)

“Before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58)

“Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.” (Phi. 2:5-11)

Jesus as GODResponse #1

The “Trilemma”C. S. Lewis

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Jesus: “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 the 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 madman 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 with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

The “Trilemma”

Jesus as HUMAN

John 11:35

Response #2

“Jesus wept.”

Jesus as HUMAN

John 11:38

Response #2

“Jesus, once more ‘deeply moved’, came to the tomb.”

Jesus the God-Man

“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.”

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C. S. Lewis