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Subject: Fwd: Taste My Jesus

this is very nice
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>>Thought you'd like this...
>>
>>Edmund J. Petry
>> > Taste My Jesus!
>> > At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they have what
>>is
>> > called "Baptist Day." On this day each one is to bring a lunch to be
>>eaten
>> > outdoors in a grassy picnic area.  Every "Baptist Day" the school would
>> > invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological
>>education
>> > centre. One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr.Tillich spoke for
>>two
>> > and
>> > one-half hours "proving" that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He
>> > quoted
>> > scholar after scholar and book after book.  He concluded that since
>>there
>> > was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious
>>tradition
>> > of
>> > the church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based
>>on
>> > a
>> > relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact, never rose from the dead
>>in
>> > any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions. After
>>about
>> > 30
>> > seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of short-cropped,
>> > woolly
>> > white hair stood
>> > up in the back.
>> >
>> > "Doctah Tillich, I got one question," he said as all eyes turned toward
>> > him. He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began
>> > eating
>> > it.
>> >
>> > "Doctah Tillich..." CRUNCH, MUNCH "My question is a simple
>>question,..."
>> > CRUNCH, MUNCH... "Now, I ain't never read them books you read..."
>>CRUNCH,
>> > MUNCH.. "and I  can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek..."
>> > CRUNCH, MUNCH ... " I don't know nothin' about Niebuhr and
>>Heidegger..."
>> > CRUNCH, MUNCH... He finished the apple.
>> >
>> > "All I wanna know is: This apple I just ate,------was it bitter or
>>sweet?"
>> > Dr. Tillich paused for a moment and then answered in exemplary
>>scholarly
>> > fashion: "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted
>> > your
>> > apple." The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into
>>his
>> > crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, "Neither
>> > have
>> > you tasted my Jesus."
>> >
>> > The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves. The crowd
>> > erupted
>> > with applause and cheers.  Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and
>>promptly
>> > left.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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