“What if this Jesus thing is just a myth that we make up?”
Once a year, our church calls upon its high school seniors to preach the gospel. These six or seven preachers study the text, listen to their lives, and observe what’s going on in the world. Their sermons do not merely shout out the name of their favorite congregant or tireless youth worker. They testify to their experience of God’s promises in Christ Jesus. Some of them tell stories of God’s deeds of power, while others confess inklings of doubt.
And one young preacher, while we were working on preparing the sermons, dared to name his fear. What if we just make Jesus up?
