Christ's Influence
"In this world of men, with it's aspirations and its struggles.....there appeared one, born of woman....To most of....his contemporaries he seemed a failure.....Yet no life ever lived on this planet has been so influential in the affairs of men. From it has grown the most nearly universal fellowship, the Christian church, that man has known....
From that brief life and its apparent frustration has flowed a more powerful force for the triumphal waging of man's long battle than any other ever known by the human race. Through it millions have had their inner conflicts resolved in progressive victory over their baser impulses. By it millions have been sustained in the greatest tragedies of life and have come through radiant. Through it hundreds of millions have been lifted from illiteracy and ignorance, and have been placed upon the road of growing intellectual freedom, and of control over their physical environment. It has done more to allay the physical ills of disease and famine than any other impulse known to man. It has emancipated millions from chattel slavery and millions of others from thraldom to vice. It has protected tens of millions from exploitation by their fellows. It has been the most fruitful source of movements to lesson the horrors of war, and to put the relations of men and nations on the basis of justice and peace."
Kenneth S. Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 Vols. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938-1947), 7:503-4
What has his life, death and resurrection done for you?
Rick
From that brief life and its apparent frustration has flowed a more powerful force for the triumphal waging of man's long battle than any other ever known by the human race. Through it millions have had their inner conflicts resolved in progressive victory over their baser impulses. By it millions have been sustained in the greatest tragedies of life and have come through radiant. Through it hundreds of millions have been lifted from illiteracy and ignorance, and have been placed upon the road of growing intellectual freedom, and of control over their physical environment. It has done more to allay the physical ills of disease and famine than any other impulse known to man. It has emancipated millions from chattel slavery and millions of others from thraldom to vice. It has protected tens of millions from exploitation by their fellows. It has been the most fruitful source of movements to lesson the horrors of war, and to put the relations of men and nations on the basis of justice and peace."
Kenneth S. Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 Vols. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938-1947), 7:503-4
What has his life, death and resurrection done for you?
Rick
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