Chapter One
Climbing a Massive Wall
I begin with an incident in my life that causes storms of
emotion to well up within me. Some memories are easy to relive. Others,
even with the passage of time, when recalled again, throb like a reinjured
wound. For that reason alone I find this, of all my past memories, very difficult
to retell. It is only because the intervening years have helped me to look
beyond the earlier hurts that I am able to bring this long-past moment into
the present. But more than that, this sad happening, alongside a handful of
others, may well have begun my journey toward God by bringing me to a
screeching halt and forcing me to ask myself some hard questions.
I was sixteen years old and a student in a community college because it
provided a shortcut to finishing high school. One day after classes normally
ended, I was cycling back home, little suspecting what lay ahead of me. It
had been a routine day from my point of view, as normal as any other. But
this one was going to end differently.
As I turned i ... read full excerpt from Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message ebook
