”From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.“ —John 6:66-69
When many of those who had been following Christ abandoned Him, the Saviour turned to the apostles and asked, "Will ye also go away?"
As one preacher preacher put it, “when doubt is everywhere, when hands are busy with attempts to pull down the most sacred…beliefs, when the air is loaded with the noxious fumes of skeptical reasonings, and I must breathe it whether I want to or not; when secret sneers as well as open assaults on the faith meet me [everywhere]; when "culture" ridicules me as being behind the times, and these repeated shocks…[loosen] the stones of my faith-temple” the question needs to be asked in profess to be Christians, "Will ye also go away?"
That was written in 1904. Surely if needed to be asked in the religious climate of that day, it needs to be asked in ours. |
