I don't need to know all that theology. I don't need to know all that Christology.

All I need to know is Jesus.

If we know Jesus,

know life, we know salvation.

Today there seems to be a great antipathy, indifference,

sometimes hostility, towards any serious intellectual pursuit of the knowledge of the things of God.

I think that grieves Christ.

We're called to maturity and understanding.

We're called to be babes in evil, but in our understanding we're called to be mature.

That doesn't mean we're called to be professional scholars or anything like that, but we're always constantly challenged by the biblical writers themselves to increase our knowledge and

understanding of Jesus and yet at the same time we're living in an atmosphere

that's very much opposed to that. So often I hear from students,

particularly Christian students.

They say to me, RC, I don't need to know all that theology.

I don't need to know all that Christology.

All I need to know is Jesus.

Don't complicate matters with me,

with words like Verahomo and Verdeus

and Soteriology and pneumatology and all those other big words that you theologians use and those fine

distinctions. All I need to know is Jesus. Now as many times as I've heard that statement from young people,

not just from young people. And as much as I hate that when I hear it, there is still some note or chord of sympathy

that it strikes in my heart when I hear it.

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