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Have You
Tasted Jesus?
Subject: Have you tasted my
Jesus????
Beliefs are what (1) separate us AND/OR (2) unite us. Faith is
what unites the Body of Christ...even across denominations. Love and
prayers.
HAVE YOU TASTED MY JESUS????
At the
University of Chicago Divinity School each year, they have what is called "Baptist
Day". It is a day when all the Baptists in the area are invited to the school
because they want the Baptist dollars to keep coming in. On this day each one is to
bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every "Baptist Day"
the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education
center. One year they invited Dr.Paul Tillich.
Dr. Tillich spoke for
two and one-half hours "proving" that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He
quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there
was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was
groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus,
who, in fact, never rose from the dead in any literal sense.
He then asked if there were any
questions. After about 30 seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of
short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium. "Docta
Tillich, I got one question," he said as all eyes turned toward him. He reached
into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating it.
"Docta
Tillich...," CRUNCH, MUNCH... "My question is a simple question," CRUNCH, MUNCH.... "Now, I
ain't never read them books you read..." CRUNCH, MUNCH... "and I can't recite the Scriptures
in the original Greek..." CRUNCH, MUNCH.... "I don't know nothin' about Niebuhr and
Heidegger..." CRUNCH, MUNCH... He finished the apple. "All I wanna know is: This
apple I just ate,------was it bitter or sweet?" Dr. Tillich paused for a moment
and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion: "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I
haven't tasted your apple." The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his
apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, "Neither have
you tasted my Jesus."
The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves.
The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers. Dr.Tillich thanked his audience and promptly
left the platform.
Have you tasted Jesus?
In Psalms 34:8 we read: "Taste and see that the
LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him."
If you have "tasted" Jesus, rejoice in the hope of the
resurrection that your faith in Him brings.
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