Sermon from a Dream


                This isn’t necessarily apologetics related, but something I wanted to get written down. A few days ago, I had a dream that I was giving a sermon to what appeared to be a high school pep rally. I don’t think this meant I will be giving this sermon, or that even I should be a preacher, but I what I recall is the content of what I was talking about.
                I was talking to the students, and giving an analogy about Christ and his salvation. Imagine we had to run a ridiculous marathon, say New York to Los Angeles in one sitting. There is no way we could do this without dropping dead (the origin of the marathon story came to mind, where the Greek messenger dropped dead after running  back to Athens to report their victory). With this in mind Jesus came and offered us his car to make this trip instead, so we could make it because Jesus is doing the race for us, and carrying us with him.
                A much shorter post than usual, but I wanted to post this and see what you thought about this analogy that came to me, and what works and doesn’t work in a theological sense. I have my ideas, but I want this to be more of a discussion starter. God bless and have a good rest of your week!

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