Tri Pres Daily (Page 14)
“Now, those are great questions!” In his days walking the earth in Israel, Jesus heard many dumb questions by his apostles like Peter and his opponents like the Sadduccees and Pharisees, but I imagine that when Jesus saw Zachery Ursinus’ pen form the letters on the paper in 1563 as he wrote the Heidelberg Catechism, the glorified Jesus must have exclaimed, “Now those are great questions!”
Some of my church planter training encouraged church planters to dream about establishing the kind of church where the city would be disappointed and miss our church if our church ever closed down. My current impression of that advice is that would sound absurd to readers of scripture in the first century. It is a…