absolutelyravi.
i was asked to speak at the united nations for their prayer breakfast for a second time, and they gave me a tougher subject than the first one. i was to speak on “navigating with absolutes in a relativistic world” - at 6:30 in the morning!
i was asked to do this in twenty-five minutes and given one other requirement: don’t talk much about religion because people from all faiths will be there. i said, “i’ll do it, but on one condition. eighteen minutes, your talk; seven minutes, why my belief in god answers these questions.” i spoke on the search for absolutes in four areas: evil, justice, love, and forgiveness.
“we all want to define what evil is,” i said. “we have people here calling other nations evil. we all want to know what evil is. you’re a society that’s supposedly looking for justice. you’ve left your families, and you miss them because you love them. and some of you are going to blow it big time with ethics; you hope the rest of your peers are willing to forgive you, and you want to know on what basis. evil, justice, love and forgiveness.”
they’re all nodding. i said, “i want you to think for a moment. is there any event in history where these four converged in one place? it happened on a hill called calvary, where evil, justice, love and forgiveness converged.”
there was pin drop silence. with five minutes left, i spoke on the cross of christ and how the cross shows the heart of man, how the cross came because of the justice of god, how the cross demonstrates to us the very love of god, and how we find at the end of the day that without his forgiveness we would never make it. at the end one ambassador confessed, “my country’s atheistic. i don’t even know why i came here. today i have my answer. i came here to find god.” that is the power of the cross.
Am 3. März 2008 um 12:43 Uhr
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Am 3. März 2008 um 13:32 Uhr
danke & willkommen!