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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
No Other Name
"Salvation is found in no one else ..." (v. 12)
-- For reading & meditation: Acts 4:1-12
We looked yesterday at the statement to the effect that all religions
are the same. We must watch out for such statements, for when they
are repeated over and over again, and by seemingly sincere people, we
can be brainwashed into accepting them. In 1966, when the first
multi-faith service was held in an Anglican church in London, in
which Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians took part on equal
terms, some Christian newspapers described it as a "betrayal of the
faith." Nowadays there is hardly a mention of such services although
they take place regularly in different parts of our nation, and also
in other countries. People seem to have given up the idea of
syncretism - the idea that all religions can be fused into one - and
are focusing more on pluralism-the recognition of each faith as being
of equal value. I take my stand with Dr. Visser't Hooft who said: "It
is high time that Christians should rediscover that Jesus Christ did
not come to make a contribution to the religious storehouse of
mankind, but that in Him God reconciled the world unto Himself." The
words of our text for today were displayed outside a church in London
until the minister was told by the local authority to take the poster
down as it offended some local inhabitants who were adherents of
other faiths. "It is not the best way to love one's neighbor as
oneself" was how one critic put it. But how can we love our neighbor
as ourselves if we make no attempt to share with them the knowledge
of salvation in Jesus Christ?
PRAYER:
O Father, in an age when the faith once delivered to the saints is
being watered down, deepen my understanding of it so that I may
contend for it without being contentious. In Christ's Name I pray.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
John 3:1-17; 6:35; 14:6
1. What Old Testament example shows there is only one way to salvation?
2. What did Jesus declare about Himself?
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