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Re: The New Jet Aircraft for Pastor Zeke Committee.
As Christianity spread across Europe, leaders used the best transport. It's true that eventually (or as soon as possible more likely-ed.) charlatans took over and subverted what had been achieved into a second-hand ideology having very little (nothing -ed.) to do with Jesus. What those territorial gains promised was not the thing that resulted.
Now we can see that process repeating. It's a two pronged affair. First comes a preaching of The Truth where brave souls step out into foreign lands with a message of hope. Some people listen, others resist – but Europe and then-savage North America come to understand that Redemption is better than annihilation.
God made sure we'd understand He was serious about Jesus by having Him born in the usual way, rather than just popping into existence, reinforced by gifts from foreign potentates. High value gifts: at the time myrrh was more in demand than gold! but gold was included too. Imitation gold-tinted wood replicas? not so much. And somehow I don't believe the three who acclaimed Christ's majesty picked up a bit of tat at the nearest bazaar before presenting The Best to baby Jesus. Now there's any amount of tacky plastic icons & souvenirs available from down-market bazaars and meretricious gift shoppes, more or less as you'd expect in the millennium since Charlemagne.
To reintroduce the one true Gospel where savagery and unbelief have raised their heads once more, decent transport is essential. No tacky statuettes and soppy wall plaques. No C-minus gifts from a pawnbroker's passing by. Surely if God is the real thing He needs the real deal to represent Him.
I would like to second everything put forward in the previous post.
As Christianity spread across Europe, leaders used the best transport. It's true that eventually (or as soon as possible more likely-ed.) charlatans took over and subverted what had been achieved into a second-hand ideology having very little (nothing -ed.) to do with Jesus. What those territorial gains promised was not the thing that resulted.
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law
Now we can see that process repeating. It's a two pronged affair. First comes a preaching of The Truth where brave souls step out into foreign lands with a message of hope. Some people listen, others resist – but Europe and then-savage North America come to understand that Redemption is better than annihilation.
God made sure we'd understand He was serious about Jesus by having Him born in the usual way, rather than just popping into existence, reinforced by gifts from foreign potentates. High value gifts: at the time myrrh was more in demand than gold! but gold was included too. Imitation gold-tinted wood replicas? not so much. And somehow I don't believe the three who acclaimed Christ's majesty picked up a bit of tat at the nearest bazaar before presenting The Best to baby Jesus. Now there's any amount of tacky plastic icons & souvenirs available from down-market bazaars and meretricious gift shoppes, more or less as you'd expect in the millennium since Charlemagne.
To reintroduce the one true Gospel where savagery and unbelief have raised their heads once more, decent transport is essential. No tacky statuettes and soppy wall plaques. No C-minus gifts from a pawnbroker's passing by. Surely if God is the real thing He needs the real deal to represent Him.
I would like to second everything put forward in the previous post.
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