For some weeks my Bible study class has been studying the person of Christ. Recently we have been looking at the portrait of Jesus given to us by the Gospel of John. Jesus was such a controversialist! By his words and actions he provoked people to make a decision about him.
The last couple of weeks we have looked at the Gospel of John, chapters 6-8. People formed all sorts of opinions about Jesus when he asserted strong claims of being God. They called him a liar, demon possessed, a blasphemer, even crazy. I like the way C.S. Lewis describes the options left us:
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”
This week our group will look at the words of Jesus recorded in the eighth chapter of John: “I am the light of the world.” This morning I received an email pointing me the amazing work of a young artist, Akiane Kramarik, who is now 12 years old. She has produced some beautiful art depicting “the light of the world.”
You can click on the link below to go to her website, click on the next link to see an interview, or click on the arrow to see yet another interview.
www.artakiane.com
http://tinyurl.com/yxewot
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