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Moderator thoughts
It was with great interest that we read Dr Greenshields’ articles from August through to December. Thank you.
Certainly, the road ahead is changing , but maybe not in the way we were expecting. Remember Philip Yancey’s comment about John the Baptist – John “a true believer, had excited the nation’s hopes about Jesus.” But did things work out that way? We read John’s words to Jesus: “Are you the one who is to come or do we look for someone else? I suggest that we also have hope, but uncertainty.
Having been a primary school teacher for many years it does not surprise me that Dr Greenshields discovered there is “a generation that knows little or nothing about Jesus and are teaching a generation that knows even less....” Why has this happened? And what can we do about it? (Many years ago when a child, as a Christmas present I was given a wonderful book of Bible stories with excellent pictures, no doubt to keep me quiet! I still have this book. Who could fail to be fascinated by the painting of the waves and the sea and the title that says, “JESUS SAVES PETER AS HE FALTERS AND BEGINS TO SINK?”) Why then , when today we live in a world of technology and not just books, is there such a lack of Biblical knowledge ? Maybe this is one of the “Questions No One Asks Aloud? Where then do we go from here? Faith is certainly not just a transaction between us and God. To come back to the primary school – the little boy declared that faith was what you can’t see! I prefer the explanation that says: F AITH-FORSAKING ALL I TRUST HIM.
Dorothy Mackay, Aberdeen
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This article appears in the February 2023 Issue of Life and Work