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July 20, 2004 at 10:12 am
Do you not know Christ?
I came across this quote on Postmodern Pilgrim’s Blog this morning:
“In a London school a teenager with no church connections hears the Christmas story for the first time. His teacher tells it well and he is fascinated by this amazing story. Risking his friends’ mockery, after the lesson he thanks her for the story. One thing had disturbed him, so he asks: ‘Why did they give the baby a swear-word for his name?’ “ (link from Len at Next Reformation, from The End of Christendom by Stuart Murray)This is just amazing to me. This surely wasn’t the case fifty years ago.
In fact, Postmodern Pilgrim poses this:
Whether we are willing to admit it or not, we are probably in the midst of having the very first majority unchurched generation in western history since the late middle ages at least.Read the rest of Postmodern Pilgrim’s thoughts here.
This story may even be hitting me even harder than usual being that my brother, Luke, and his family have just recently arrived safely in Southeast Asia. I wonder how people from around the world — speaking tongues that aren’t even recorded — know about a Man who the Western world takes for granted? How is it that people right next door have only heard the name of Jesus used as a swear word?
Baffling.
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