Abstract

The Christian Message concerning God .. HE Christian is essentially a man with a message, and that message is a declaration concerning God and His purpose for men. When our Lord came into Galilee He said, " The Kingdom of God is at hand." When Simon Peter stood up at Pentecost he said, " This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are witnesses." When the Apostle Paul stood before the blase crowd on Mars Hill he said, " Whom ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you." In the same way the Christian has a message for this tragic and critical world, the foundation ·of which is a message concerning God. But what is this message, and how are we to make it sufficiently clear and convincing that men will listen ? I.-THE MESSAGE MUST nE OuR OwN. In these days of hard mental training and abundant theological literature there is a danger of our approaching this matter from the side of books rather than that of life. One does not wish to belittle the real value of hooks, nor the necessity of consistent thinking, but in the first place it is not from books that we obtain