Ravi Zacharias has posted on his ministry web site an interview he granted Julia Duin of The Washington Times last year. Ravi was born in India, and raised in Hinduism, before becoming a Christian. He is widely recognized as an authority on the major world religions. I found a couple of gems:
I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around. Everyone: pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist has to answer these questions: Where did I come from? What is life’s meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die? Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
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What America needs more than anything else right now is to know she cannot exist without the worldview that helped bring her into being. And that was the Judeo-Christian worldview. What America also needs is the willingness to allow the Christian faith freedom of access in the institutions that it allows every other faith to have.
Isn’t it interesting that when these mainline divinity schools were conservative, room was given for the liberals. But they have become liberal and the conservatives are squeezed out, if not humiliated out, which is a fascinating reality.
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In his daily devotional on Wednesday (free registration required), Pastor Greg Laurie talked about what it truly means to confess our sins to God:
The problem is that there are people today who think they have confessed their sin when they haven’t. Far too many people think that to confess their sin is merely to acknowledge their sin. Therefore, they will sin, they will get caught, and they will say, “I acknowledge what I did. I confess that sin. That was a bad thing.” Then they go out and do it again and say, “I did it again. I confess.” That’s not a true confession. They are simply recognizing what is obviously sin.
Confession means to see sin for what it is, to be sorry for it, and to turn from it. You have to take your sin to the cross and recognize it is offensive to the one and only true God. Are you willing to do that? If so, then God will forgive you and cleanse you from all your unrighteousness.
It has been said that Christians are their own worst enemy when it comes to evangelizing Christ to the nations. Part of that could be our failure to truly confess and turn from our sins, for our actions speak louder than any words.