WHEN WE READ a myth or legend, we instinctively understand that we are in the world of fable...
We switch gears when we read it; in the words of the poet Coleridge, we "suspend disbelief." But the Gospels are set in a real world of needs: wine running out at a wedding; hungry crowds with not enough food; fruitless fishing trips; and no money for the tax bill. Into this world quietly breaks the miraculous, which seems as ordinary as the hassles. In myth, extraordinary people in an extraordinary world do extraordinary things. In the Gospels, the extraordinary love and compassion of a remarkable Man radiates and illuminates an ordinary world. Paul E. Miller, "Who Is Jesus?," Love Walked Among Us, 19
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healling all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him." Acts 10:38
--Mike Benson
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