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John 21: 25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
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In an era when new religions were a dime a dozen, the Christian faith became a worldwide phenomenon.* |
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I got together recently with my college best friend and her husband, and of course we took that stroll down memory lane. I know we didn’t remember everything that we did back then but it was enough to make me ask, “When did we have time to go to class?”
Jesus’ “classmates” in his three-year ministry must have had a similar feeling when they looked back on the experience. “How did the 13 of us manage to accomplish so much back in Jerusalem?” they might have thought. Jesus changed the world with 12 seemingly-ordinary men in fewer years than it took me to get a college degree. Trying to capture and record all those memories would be daunting – and unnecessary. The inspired writers of the gospels told us everything we needed to know about their exploits. As someone has observed, “The Gospels get their facts straight, but they’re not written to say everything about Jesus and to say it in chronological order.”* We should also note that, since John begins his account of Jesus’ life by saying that all things were made by him, we would have to go all the way back to creation to begin filling in the missing details!*
And Jesus isn’t finished with his activity in this world. John records Jesus’ promise to send his Spirit to be in us (John 14: 16-18) – and we still have work to do (Matthew 28: 19, 20).
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Do you know how this world would be changed if we simply did what Jesus told us to do, simply because he said so?* |
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