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====== Is History important for ME? ... ====== | ====== Is History important for ME? ... ====== | ||
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to my own life. What is my involvement? | to my own life. What is my involvement? | ||
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to determine our position today. | to determine our position today. | ||
+ | But let us come back to the question, why history might be important | ||
+ | for me today. | ||
+ | The New Testament teaches that the story about Jesus is important since | ||
+ | Jesus lives today. He is there, here and now. You could talk to him. He | ||
+ | is there by his spirit, the holy spirit. | ||
+ | The biblical books are not historical in the sense that the things they | ||
+ | talk about are dead now. They are not dead, they are alive! The experiences | ||
+ | of the people of the Old Testament are alive, since God is alive and the | ||
+ | holy spirit is alive. | ||
+ | It is good to ask why history is important. To me, it became very important | ||
+ | when I started to understand that the experiences of the people in the past | ||
+ | are my own experiences. They can help me today, since the situation is the | ||
+ | same. God is the same. And God still wants to link up with humans. | ||
+ | The history becomes very interesting when it is the history of someone | ||
+ | you love. Or when a good friend appears there, acting and talking. This is | ||
+ | world history to me now. Christ Jesus has been there. His spirit talked | ||
+ | to the church fathers, to the people of Israel thousands of years ago. And | ||
+ | he is still talking today, through his spirit. These are far reaching | ||
+ | claims. They are not my claims, these are the biblical claims. They | ||
+ | coincide with Christian experience ever since. There is a lot to explore! | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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