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Invitation to faith ...

Friday, Sept 14, 2012. I would like to invite you to faith today, to faith in Jesus, to the Christian faith. It is the biblical invitation, which I am referring to - not really my own invitation, but God's invitation which is given to every single human. He wants you to find him. He wants to find you … like all the others as well.

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Try to explore who Jesus is …

If you ask me: what is the best what can happen to a human, then I would need to say: Jesus. The best for him or her is to get to know Jesus. The best is to start to follow Jesus, to start to live with Jesus … and stay with him.

As a scientist I am excited by science. I have chosen science, I had many opportunities to be a businessmen, to drop science, to do something else useful and potentially with a higher income. But I wanted to be a scientist, someone who explores the universe and tries to understand it by mathematical insight … and indeed our world is based on quantitative laws, which can be described by mathematics.

Also, I have been doing music intensively, traveling with orchestras quite a lot over many years. I know the professional world of music. It is a fantastic world, with creations of brilliant composers and artists. Music moves us all!

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But science nor music nor art can replace what Jesus can be. It is just on another level. Science helps to understand this or that. With Jesus you start to understand life. Music can be breathtaking and fantastic, it deeply connects to our emotions as well as to our mind. But Jesus sees much deeper, and the joy of the Holy Spirit connects to the very ends of your soul and your existence.

Way, Truth and Life …

Jesus once said, that he is “the way, the truth and the life”. That is a strong claim, and I completely understand that humans will resist such strong claims initially. I did for many years, since I thought I have to understand what he means, then I can judge it better. Initially, he sounds kind of mad.

But when I got to know Jesus better, I realized that indeed he might be right. He just said the truth. He expressed what is the case, but more than that - he also opens a door to us. He is, again in his own words, “the door”. We can go through him, into life! All this is only comprehensible when you start to understand the unique role which Jesus has, that God indeed comes close to us in him, as a human. You might think that it is a strong claim - it is, but when you meet him, you can see with eyes of the heart.

See yourself. Invitations can be investigated. You can have a deeper look and make your own decisions. Anyway, you need to go your own steps towards faith, no one can do that for you. God wants to link up with you directly. And we have to tell “good news” (euangelion) indeed: God is fantastic, and he is waiting for us to discover him today. The door to heaven is wide open in Jesus. (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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