The Witness

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Outline

I. THE CASE
"We want cattle that can finally become food; He [God] wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in; he wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over.” – Screwtape, from C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters

II. THE WITNESS
"Allah's word is a book. Thus, when Allah gives his Quran, he gives some thing, a deposit of information about himself and how he likes things. ... However, when the triune God gives us his Word, he gives us his very self, for the Son is the Word of God. This God does not give us some thing that is other than himself, or merely tell us about himself; he actually gives us himself." - Michael Reeves

III. THE VERDICT
"It is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance. ... In Christianity, the verdict leads to the performance." - Tim Keller

Take-away: You are a witness!

Resources

• Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals
• C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
• Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity
• Ed Welch, When People are Big and God is Small