MY OFFERING

O my Father, remembering how Christ

your Son offered His suffering and death to you,

I now try to offer my suffering, my life, and my death to you.

You are my Father, I am a sinner.

Accept my life and my death as You accepted your Son’s.

Make me Your son or daughter again.

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NEW LIFE

We left our story with Jesus Christ nailed to a cross and pouring out the last drop of His blood as a gift to His Father for sinful men. He has offered His totally unselfish self for selfish self, for my selfish self.

Is that the end of His story? If it were, then I may weep for Christ. I may admire His love and generosity. But that would be the end of it. No one would be very anxious to follow a man put to death on a cross, hanging between two ordinary criminals.

If the cross is the end, then Christ is an interesting figure of human history, but that is all.

And that leads us to the most vital part of our adventure to MEET CHRIST. So if you are interested in something more than `studying’ a religion, as you would study mathematics or geography, then it would be good to pause here and ask God to give you His special light to see where the truth lies.

It is not easy to believe what follows. Yet having come this far in the experience of MEETING CHRIST, it would be sad not to keep an open mind. No one is trying to force or deceive the reader. All that is asked is an open mind, not one that is closed and decided before seeing the evidence.

FRIGHTENED MEN

Jesus had called a small band of men to be His special followers and trained them in a special way during the three years that He preached and went about doing good. They were to carry on His work when He returned to His Father, but during the last terrible day of His life they proved great failures.