“Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us” – Luke 1:2
The beginning of Luke’s gospel is a wonderful reassurance for our skeptical age. Luke explains that he conducted meticulous research and eyewitness interviews. Under the direction and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Luke wrote an organized, sound, evidence-based history of the conception, birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. He did this so that we can be confident about what we’ve been taught, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Resurrected Lord and Savior!
The Christian faith isn’t built on legend or myth. The gospel accounts weren’t written hundreds of years later. Our faith in Jesus is rooted in the personal experience and eyewitness testimony of those who were with Him at every stage of His earthly life. Our faith is a rational, grounded, reasonable faith. As extraordinary as the idea of physical resurrection is, we can trust that it actually happened, because the people who talked with, ate with, and touched the risen Jesus shared their stories. They also invested their lives and deaths in repeating those stories to anyone who would listen.
Are there things that are difficult to understand or explain about our faith? Of course, that’s why it requires faith. Nonetheless, that doesn’t make them less true! Trust the Bible. Rejoice in the orderly, eyewitness accounts God has provided for us through inspired authors of Scripture. Trust Jesus! #FollowJesus