By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew
“Personally I have no more use for a dead Christ than I have for a molten image. The Christ who once did loving deeds and does them no more, who once spoke words of comfort but has been silent for centuries, means nothing to me. It is the Christ whose fellowship I can share, that I want, the Christ who in danger says now as once he said, ‘Fear not, I am with thee,’ a Christ of whom we can still say, ‘There stood by me this night one whose I am, and whom I serve,’ a Christ who, when we have done our best and all that remains is the consciousness of our own impotence, we realize is near us, that is the Christ I want, and that is the Christ my faith today acclaims.” -Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell