CQOD: 10/25/06 -- Huxtable: the authority of Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 25, 2006

Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285

Meditation:
    And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
    -- Matthew 4:19 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    The basis of our Lord’s appeal was himself. “Follow me,” “come unto me,” and “ye will not come unto me,” indicate sufficiently that what he offered to men was himself. He seeks to win men’s acceptance of the truth that had come in him. His words and deeds served to indicate what manner of man he was and what kind of work he had come to do; and all the time it is a person addressing persons, seeking to gain their recognition of and their self-commitment to himself. He sought to exercise no authority over men that was not personal, both in the way it was exercised and in the way in which it was recognized and accepted.
    ... John Huxtable (1912-1990), The Bible Says [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant a personal knowledge of and commitment to You in _____ and _____.

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