When the Empty Tomb Reaches Monday Morning
Living as Though Jesus Christ Really Rose
A Practical Companion to The Argument for Jesus Christ
Some books ask readers to consider an argument. Others eventually ask what that argument changes. The complete historical case presented in The Argument for Jesus Christ examines Jesus’ identity, crucifixion, burial, resurrection appearances, the transformation of His earliest followers, and the explanations offered for the movement that emerged after His death. This companion book begins where that investigation becomes personal.
The movement from belief to dependable Christian living also continues the lesson explored in the companion book When Faith Becomes What a Room Can Count On. Faith is not proven only by what we say during worship, what we post online, or how confidently we defend Christian doctrine. It becomes visible in what other people can count on us to do when a room is tense, a relationship is wounded, a decision is costly, or someone needs mercy more than another speech.
If Jesus Christ truly rose from the dead, the resurrection cannot remain sealed inside an ancient tomb, a theological debate, or a book about historical evidence. It reaches Monday morning. It enters family conversations, workplaces, hospital rooms, financial decisions, political disagreements, private temptations, unanswered prayers, and moments when no one is watching. The resurrection becomes either the governing truth of life or an idea we admire while continuing to live as though death, fear, power, and self-interest still possess the final word.
Chapter One
The Morning After the Argument
There is a strange moment that comes after completing a serious investigation.
The sources have been examined. The strongest objections have been heard. Weak Christian arguments have been set aside. Survival, conspiracy, hallucination, grief experiences, social reinforcement, legendary development, and the possibility of a relocated body have all been considered.
A conclusion begins to form.
Jesus died.
His earliest followers became convinced that He appeared to them alive.
The resurrection proclamation emerged too early to be dismissed as a legend created centuries later.
Peter believed.
James changed.
Paul reversed direction.
The tomb was probably empty.
The movement that should have ended at the cross instead reorganized itself around the conviction that God had raised Jesus from the dead.
Then the book closes.
The room becomes quiet.
The investigator returns to ordinary life.
That is where the deeper test begins.
It is possible to believe that resurrection provides the best explanation of the evidence while continuing to live as though Jesus were still dead. A person may agree with the argument intellectually and yet allow anxiety, resentment, ambition, shame, or political identity to exercise greater authority than the risen Christ.
Historical agreement is not the same as allegiance.
A man can believe that a judge holds legal authority while ignoring the judge’s order. A citizen can know who occupies an office while refusing every obligation associated with citizenship. A patient can agree with a diagnosis while rejecting the treatment.
The earliest Christian confession was not merely that an extraordinary event occurred.
It was that Jesus is Lord.
That statement took the resurrection out of the category of interesting history and placed it over the whole human life.
If Jesus is Lord, then He is Lord when the evidence feels convincing and when doubt returns. He is Lord when prayer seems answered and when heaven feels silent. He is Lord when obedience brings peace and when obedience costs something we wanted to keep.
The resurrection does not become true because we feel inspired.
It does not become false because we feel discouraged.
It stands outside our changing emotions as a claim about what God did in history.
That stability is one of its greatest practical gifts.
Many people build their spiritual lives upon emotional intensity. They feel near to God during a powerful song, a meaningful sermon, or a moment of relief. When the emotion fades, they assume God has withdrawn.
Resurrection faith begins somewhere firmer.
Jesus was raised before we were encouraged.
Jesus remained Lord before we understood the argument.
Jesus did not leave the tomb because a worship service created the proper atmosphere.
The event, if it happened, is true on our worst morning as surely as on our best one.
This means Christian life does not begin by trying to feel more religious. It begins by placing the weight of life upon a person who is believed to be alive.
The first practical question is therefore not, “How strong is my faith today?”
It is, “Who is Jesus today?”
Christianity answers that He is the same risen Lord He was yesterday.
Faith may tremble.
The object of faith does not.
Chapter Two
When Belief Has to Enter the House
It is easier to believe in resurrection at a distance than to let resurrection enter the home.
A person may defend Jesus passionately in public and become impatient with family in private. He may write about grace while withholding it from the person sitting across the table. He may share Christian messages with thousands of people while refusing to apologize to one person he wounded.
The resurrection exposes this separation.
If Jesus rose, then the life He taught was not optional moral decoration attached to a successful miracle. God vindicated the person who told His followers to love enemies, forgive repeatedly, speak truthfully, serve quietly, welcome children, protect the vulnerable, and place obedience to God above the performance of religion.
Resurrection confirms the authority of the teacher.
That authority first reaches the places where our public image cannot protect us.
It reaches the tone we use with people who cannot benefit us.
It reaches the way we respond when someone interrupts us.
It reaches the private satisfaction we feel when an enemy fails.
It reaches the stories we repeat because they make us look innocent.
It reaches the apology we keep postponing.
A resurrection-shaped home is not a home without disagreement. Christians sometimes confuse peace with avoidance. They hide real pain, call the silence unity, and become surprised when years of unresolved tension eventually break through.
Jesus did not practice peace by pretending conflict did not exist.
He named hypocrisy.
He confronted injustice.
He asked direct questions.
He also refused to make humiliation His method.
Truth and mercy were not enemies in Him.
That combination must enter Christian homes.
A husband may be factually correct and still use truth cruelly.
A wife may possess a legitimate grievance and still use it as permanent leverage.
A parent may call control protection.
An adult child may call contempt a boundary.
A family member may demand forgiveness while avoiding repentance.
Resurrection life does not require us to ignore these realities. It requires us to face them without surrendering to the death-producing patterns beneath them.
The old life protects itself at any cost.
It denies.
Blames.
Manipulates.
Withdraws affection.
Rewrites history.
The risen life can say, “I was wrong.”
Those words sound small, but they are a form of resurrection.
Something built around self-protection dies.
Something truthful begins living in its place.
An apology does not guarantee reconciliation. Another person may remain angry. Trust may need time. Consequences may remain.
Resurrection does not mean every relationship returns to its former condition. Some former conditions were unhealthy.
It means truth no longer has to be feared as the destroyer of identity. The Christian’s final identity rests in the mercy of Jesus, not in maintaining the appearance of innocence.
This creates freedom to confess without collapsing.
Peter’s story demonstrates that failure need not become the final definition of a person. He denied Jesus, yet the movement remembered him as restored and commissioned.
That restoration did not make the denial imaginary.
Grace did not change what Peter had done.
It changed what his failure was permitted to decide about his future.
The same principle enters ordinary homes.
A mother who lost patience cannot reverse the words she spoke, but she can name them honestly and begin repairing what they damaged.
A son who withdrew from his father for years cannot recover the missing time, but he can stop pretending that silence costs nothing.
A spouse who broke trust cannot demand quick forgiveness, but repentance can begin before certainty about the outcome.
The resurrection teaches that endings we created do not have to remain final when truth, grace, and change become possible.
Chapter Three
The Risen Jesus at Work
Christian faith is often discussed as though it belongs mainly to churches, private morality, and personal comfort.
Most adults spend a large portion of life working.
If Jesus is Lord, He is Lord there too.
The resurrection changes work because it changes the source of identity.
Without a larger source of worth, work is easily asked to become something it cannot sustain. A career becomes proof that a life matters. Promotion becomes vindication. Recognition becomes resurrection. Losing a position begins to feel like losing the self.
This pressure can produce remarkable achievement.
It can also produce fear, dishonesty, exhaustion, and the quiet sacrifice of other people.
A leader who must prove personal worth through success will eventually be tempted to use employees as evidence of that worth. People become resources, numbers, obstacles, audiences, or threats.
The risen Jesus offers another identity.
A person is known and called before the performance review.
Grace is not a year-end reward.
Human dignity is not created by salary, title, visibility, productivity, or influence.
This does not weaken excellence.
It frees excellence from desperation.
A Christian can work diligently without requiring work to become a god. Mistakes can be faced because they do not erase identity. Other people can succeed without becoming enemies. Responsibility can be accepted without claiming control over every result.
The resurrection also transforms leadership.
The world often defines leadership through the ability to command attention, protect authority, and produce outcomes. Jesus defined greatness through service.
That does not mean leaders become indecisive or surrender responsibility. Serving people sometimes requires making difficult decisions, correcting poor performance, ending destructive conduct, or protecting an organization from real harm.
Servant leadership does not mean everyone receives whatever they request.
It means power is exercised for the good of those affected by it rather than for the emotional security of the person holding it.
A resurrection-shaped leader can admit uncertainty.
A fear-shaped leader must always appear certain.
A resurrection-shaped leader can promote someone more gifted.
A fear-shaped leader feels diminished by another person’s ability.
A resurrection-shaped leader can receive criticism without treating it as treason.
A fear-shaped leader creates a room where honesty becomes dangerous.
The practical evidence of Christian leadership is not how often Jesus is mentioned in meetings. It is what happens to people around the leader.
Can they speak?
Can they report problems?
Are they treated fairly?
Is accountability applied consistently?
Does the leader accept responsibility when something fails?
Are vulnerable people protected even when protection is inconvenient?
These questions reveal more about lived faith than religious vocabulary does.
The resurrection also challenges the ordinary compromises people make at work.
A report is adjusted because the real number may upset management.
A mistake is hidden because the person fears embarrassment.
A customer is promised something the organization cannot deliver.
An employee’s idea is presented as the manager’s own.
A person remains silent while a colleague is blamed unfairly.
Each decision may appear small.
Together they form character.
The risen Jesus does not call people to dramatic courage only when history is watching. He calls them to truth when the dishonest option is easier and may never be discovered.
This does not guarantee that integrity will be rewarded.
A truthful employee may lose an opportunity.
A responsible leader may be criticized by people who preferred comfort.
A business owner may surrender profit by refusing exploitation.
The cross prevents Christianity from promising that faithfulness always produces visible success.
The resurrection prevents visible failure from becoming the final measure of faithfulness.
That is why Christian work can remain meaningful when recognition does not come.
The final judgment of a life does not belong to the marketplace.
Chapter Four
Doubt Without Disguise
A companion book supporting the argument for Jesus Christ should not pretend doubt disappears after the case is presented.
A person may find the resurrection historically persuasive and still wake up wondering whether the whole belief is too extraordinary to be true.
The mind returns to alternatives.
Perhaps Peter experienced grief.
Perhaps Paul had a neurological event.
Perhaps the body was moved.
Perhaps memory developed more rapidly than expected.
Perhaps God exists, but Christianity misunderstood what happened.
These questions do not make a person disloyal.
They become dangerous only when they are hidden, manipulated, or used as an excuse never to seek an answer.
Some churches treat doubt as a moral failure. People learn to repeat confidence because honesty may cost acceptance. The community then appears full of certainty while private questions deepen in isolation.
That atmosphere does not produce stronger faith.
It produces performance.
Jesus did not build His movement from people who understood everything. The disciples misunderstood His mission, argued about position, fled under pressure, and doubted reports they had not yet accepted.
The resurrection narratives themselves preserve hesitation.
That honesty matters.
A fabricated picture of perfect confidence would be easier for institutions to manage. The surviving picture is more human.
Christian doubt should be specific.
Saying “I doubt Christianity” can hide several different struggles.
A person may doubt whether God exists.
Another may believe in God but doubt miracles.
Another may accept resurrection but distrust the church.
Another may be angry because prayer did not produce healing.
Another may fear what obedience would change.
Another may carry shame and assume God’s mercy cannot apply to what has been done.
These are not the same problem.
They should not receive the same response.
Historical questions deserve historical investigation.
Philosophical questions deserve careful reasoning.
Church wounds deserve truth, accountability, and protection.
Grief deserves companionship rather than debate.
Moral resistance deserves honest self-examination.
Faith becomes healthier when the real question is named.
Doubt can also reveal where a person has placed trust.
A believer may say the resurrection is the foundation of hope while living as though financial security is the real foundation. When money becomes uncertain, faith appears to collapse. The crisis may not prove disbelief in Jesus. It may reveal that confidence had quietly moved elsewhere.
The same can happen with health, reputation, marriage, children, political power, or career success.
When those things tremble, people sometimes say they are losing faith in God.
They may actually be discovering how much faith they had placed in something else.
This discovery is painful.
It can also become grace.
The resurrection does not promise that temporary foundations will remain stable.
It offers a foundation beyond their collapse.
Faith is not refusing to feel fear while the ground moves.
It is deciding where to stand when fear arrives.
Chapter Five
When God Does Not Prevent the Grave
The hardest practical test of resurrection faith comes when death remains present.
It is one thing to argue that Jesus rose.
It is another to stand beside the body of someone who did not.
Christian language can become careless in grief.
People say everything happens for a reason.
They say God needed another angel.
They say the person is in a better place as though that should remove the pain of absence.
They tell grieving people to be strong when strength is not what love requires.
The resurrection does not ask us to call death good.
The New Testament calls death an enemy.
Jesus weeps at a tomb in John’s Gospel even though the narrative is moving toward life. Tears are not evidence that resurrection hope has failed.
They are evidence that love recognizes what death has taken.
The resurrection changes grief without eliminating it.
Without resurrection, death may be faced courageously, but it remains the final separation.
With resurrection, separation remains real but not final.
Christian hope is not based upon denying what happened to the body. It is based upon what Christians believe God did with the body of Jesus.
The body matters.
Creation matters.
The person who died is not reduced to a memory inside the survivors. God remains able to restore the whole person beyond the limits of human preservation.
This hope does not answer why one person died young, why another suffered, or why prayer seemed unanswered.
The resurrection of Jesus does not function as a simple explanation for every tragedy.
It functions as God’s promise that tragedy will not define the final condition of creation.
That distinction matters when hope is spoken near suffering.
A grieving person does not need a theory explaining why the loss was necessary. The person needs to know that God sees, that the loss matters, and that death does not own what it has taken.
The cross reveals that God does not remain untouched by suffering.
The resurrection reveals that God is not defeated by it.
Christians live between those two truths.
They do not deny Friday because Sunday is coming.
They do not assume Friday is final because Sunday has not yet arrived.
This is why resurrection faith can remain present in hospital rooms without promising a cure that God has not promised.
It can pray boldly for healing while refusing to accuse the sick person if healing does not occur.
It can use medicine without treating medical care as a lack of faith.
It can sit quietly when no sentence is adequate.
The risen Jesus does not require believers to manufacture optimism.
Hope is deeper than optimism.
Optimism believes circumstances will improve because the visible signs are favorable.
Resurrection hope begins after the visible signs have ended.
Jesus was dead.
Hope began there.
Chapter Six
The Church Beneath the Verdict
The evidence for Jesus and the conduct of Christians must be distinguished, but they cannot be separated completely.
A dishonest Christian does not change what happened under Pontius Pilate. A corrupt church cannot place Jesus’ body back into the tomb.
Yet Christianity claims that the risen Jesus creates transformed people. The lives of Christians therefore become part of how the claim is encountered publicly.
This is uncomfortable because the church has often contradicted Jesus.
Leaders have used fear to control people.
Victims have been silenced to protect reputations.
Political loyalty has replaced loyalty to Christ.
Wealth has been celebrated while poverty is ignored.
Questions have been punished.
Religious language has been used to excuse pride, racism, exploitation, nationalism, abuse, and indifference.
These failures should not be minimized for the sake of defending Christianity.
Jesus does not need institutional dishonesty to protect Him.
If He is risen, He stands in judgment over the church as surely as He stands in judgment over the world.
This means the first response to exposed Christian failure should not be, “But look at the good the church has done.”
Good does not erase the wounded person.
The first response should be truth.
What happened?
Who was harmed?
Who possessed power?
Was the harm reported?
Was it concealed?
What protection is now necessary?
Resurrection faith should make Christian communities more willing to expose darkness, not less.
Image management belongs to the fear of death.
An institution fears that confession will destroy it, so it hides truth.
Resurrection declares that truth can lead through death toward new life.
That does not guarantee every institution survives exposure.
Some structures may need to end.
Christianity does not promise resurrection to every organization bearing Jesus’ name. It proclaims resurrection through Jesus.
The church serves Him; He does not serve its reputation.
This principle also matters for people who have been hurt by Christians.
Returning to Jesus does not require returning immediately to an unsafe community.
Forgiveness does not require renewed access.
Reconciliation cannot be demanded without repentance, accountability, and change.
A victim is not responsible for protecting the comfort of the person who caused harm.
Jesus’ command to forgive has sometimes been used as a weapon because forgiveness was defined as silence. That definition protects wrongdoing.
Christian forgiveness releases vengeance to God while allowing truth, boundaries, consequences, and justice to remain.
A risen Lord who carries wounds does not ask wounded people to pretend wounds never happened.
His wounds are transformed, but they are not denied.
The church becomes credible when it learns the same honesty.
Chapter Seven
The Evidence Other People Can See
Most people will never study every historical argument concerning Jesus.
They may never compare the Synoptic Gospels, examine Pauline chronology, study burial practices, or weigh philosophical objections to miracles.
They will encounter Christians.
This does not mean Christian behavior replaces historical evidence. Kind people can believe false things, and cruel people can state true facts.
It means the life of the believer can either invite serious consideration or make the message appear unrelated to reality.
The earliest Christian witness included words and conduct.
The followers announced resurrection, but they also formed communities, shared resources, cared for vulnerable people, crossed social divisions, and attempted to live under a different understanding of power.
They did this imperfectly. The New Testament letters exist partly because churches were failing.
The goal was never perfection performed for outsiders.
It was a new life continually brought under the authority of Jesus.
Modern Christian witness should look similar.
The person who believes Jesus rose should become harder to control through fear.
Not fearless in the sense of never trembling, but less willing to betray truth for security.
The person who believes Jesus rose should become freer to serve without recognition.
If death cannot erase what God values, obscurity cannot make faithfulness meaningless.
The person who believes Jesus rose should become more capable of repentance.
Identity is no longer secured by pretending to be right.
The person who believes Jesus rose should resist treating enemies as less than human.
The risen Jesus was not created by destroying everyone who opposed Him.
He overcame their violence without adopting its character.
The person who believes Jesus rose should care about bodies, communities, and creation.
Resurrection is not escape from embodied life. It is God’s commitment to renew it.
These changes often happen quietly.
A Christian tells the truth in a meeting.
A manager protects an employee from unfair blame.
A family breaks an inherited pattern of cruelty.
A church reports abuse rather than hiding it.
A person repays what was taken.
A former enemy receives unexpected kindness.
A lonely neighbor is remembered consistently rather than visited once for public credit.
None of these acts proves that Jesus rose.
They demonstrate what resurrection belief means when it enters human behavior.
They are signs that another authority is being obeyed.
The world has seen enough Christianity built around winning.
It needs Christians willing to become trustworthy.
Trustworthiness is not weakness.
It requires consistency when applause is absent, truth when falsehood is convenient, courage when silence offers protection, and mercy when resentment feels deserved.
A room can count on such a person.
A family can count on such a person.
A workplace can count on such a person.
Not because the person never fails, but because failure will not be hidden behind religious image.
Resurrection produces people who can return to the truth because they believe truth leads finally toward life.
Chapter Eight
When the Empty Tomb Enters the Future
The resurrection does not concern only what happened to Jesus.
The earliest Christians called Him the firstfruits.
That word turns one event into a promise.
Jesus rose first because others are meant to follow.
Christian hope is therefore larger than the survival of an invisible soul. It includes the renewal of embodied persons and, ultimately, creation itself.
This changes the way present life is valued.
Bodies are not temporary containers to be discarded without concern.
The body of the disabled person matters.
The aging body matters.
The body wounded by violence matters.
The body limited by illness matters.
The body that cannot produce at the level society rewards still possesses God-given dignity.
Resurrection does not say present limitations are imaginary. It says they do not possess the authority to define a person’s final future.
This hope should make Christians more attentive to suffering now.
A church that preaches bodily resurrection while ignoring hunger, medical need, disability access, loneliness, or abuse has separated future hope from present obedience.
The future God promises becomes visible through present acts of care.
Not because Christians can build the completed kingdom through their own power, but because allegiance to the coming King changes how they treat the people who will share His future.
Resurrection hope also changes how justice is understood.
Many victims die without public vindication.
Some crimes are never punished.
Some truth is buried by institutions powerful enough to control the record.
If death is final, much injustice remains permanently unresolved.
The resurrection of Jesus declares that human verdicts can be reviewed.
Rome condemned Him.
God raised Him.
That pattern becomes hope for everyone whose worth was denied by earthly power.
Final judgment is not a primitive addition to Christian love. It is love’s refusal to call cruelty harmless.
A universe without judgment may protect offenders from accountability, but it does not honor victims.
Christian hope places judgment in the hands of Jesus—the one who knows suffering, exposes hypocrisy, offers mercy, and refuses to become the evil He judges.
This should produce humility rather than revenge.
Christians are not appointed to destroy everyone they consider wrong.
They are called to tell truth, seek justice, protect others, and leave final judgment to the risen Lord.
The resurrection removes the need to become judge, jury, and executioner of every enemy.
Justice can be pursued without allowing hatred to become identity.
Chapter Nine
The Question Waiting in Ordinary Life
The argument for Jesus Christ eventually returns to a simple question.
What would change if Jesus is alive?
Would we speak differently?
Would we use power differently?
Would we treat hidden conduct as though it occurred in His presence?
Would we forgive differently?
Would we face failure differently?
Would we approach death differently?
A person can postpone these questions by continuing to investigate indefinitely.
Further study is valuable. The historical case deserves serious attention. Questions should not be silenced.
But investigation can become a hiding place.
A person may keep demanding one more answer because the answers already received are moving too close to the will.
The resistance may not concern whether Jesus rose.
It may concern what following Him would cost.
Perhaps a relationship would need to change.
Perhaps hidden behavior would need to be confessed.
Perhaps a political loyalty would have to become secondary.
Perhaps money would have to be treated as stewardship rather than proof of success.
Perhaps someone long despised would have to be recognized as human.
Perhaps a religious identity built around judging others would have to die.
The resurrection is comforting because it announces life.
It is disruptive because the life belongs to Jesus.
He does not offer resurrection as a way to preserve every version of ourselves we have constructed.
He offers new life.
New life requires the surrender of what belongs to death.
Pride.
Deception.
Contempt.
Exploitation.
Self-righteousness.
The need to control every outcome.
The belief that our failures are either too small to confess or too great to forgive.
Following Jesus is not self-improvement with religious language added.
It is death and resurrection becoming the pattern of a life.
The false self is brought into truth.
Grace begins rebuilding what fear controlled.
This transformation rarely occurs in one dramatic moment.
Paul’s direction changed suddenly, but his life of discipleship continued through years of hardship, learning, conflict, repentance, and service.
Peter encountered restoration, yet he still required correction later.
The resurrection did not make the first Christians instantly mature.
It gave them a new Lord and a new direction.
That is still what Christian conversion means.
Direction matters.
The person may move slowly.
Questions may remain.
Old habits may resist.
Faith may feel small.
The question is whether the life is moving toward Jesus.
Conclusion
The Argument We Become
The Argument for Jesus Christ presents a historical judgment.
Jesus existed.
He announced God’s kingdom.
He exercised extraordinary authority.
He was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
He died and was buried.
His followers very early became convinced that God had raised Him from the dead.
Peter believed he encountered Jesus.
Groups of disciples shared that conviction.
James changed from family distance to leadership.
Paul moved from persecution to proclamation.
The resurrection message arose before slow legend could create it from a forgotten past.
Natural explanations remain possible, but they require several different events and mechanisms to account for the complete pattern.
Resurrection holds the evidence together if God is permitted to act.
This companion book offers another judgment.
If that conclusion is true, we cannot live as though it is merely interesting.
The empty tomb reaches Monday morning.
It reaches the person we become under pressure.
It reaches the truth we tell when lying would protect us.
It reaches the use of authority.
It reaches grief.
It reaches church failure.
It reaches our treatment of enemies.
It reaches the way we measure success.
It reaches the fear of death.
Christianity does not become credible by pretending Christians never fail.
It becomes visible when failure is met with truth, repentance, grace, and change.
The argument becomes a life.
A room becomes safer because someone believes Jesus is Lord.
A workplace becomes more honest.
A wounded person is believed.
An apology is spoken.
A hidden wrong is exposed.
A powerful person accepts accountability.
A lonely person becomes known.
An enemy is not permitted to become less than human.
A dying person discovers that fear is not the only voice in the room.
These moments do not replace the historical case.
They are what the historical case begins producing when resurrection is trusted.
The world does not need Christians who can defend an empty tomb while filling ordinary life with fear, pride, manipulation, and contempt.
It needs witnesses.
A witness is not merely someone who repeats what happened.
A witness becomes evidence of what the event means.
The earliest followers proclaimed that Jesus Christ was alive.
The present generation must decide whether that proclamation will remain words inherited from others or become a truth embodied through us.
The stone was moved.
The tomb was opened.
The disciples were sent outward.
Resurrection has always moved in that direction.
Out of hiding.
Out of fear.
Out of self-protection.
Toward truth.
Toward service.
Toward wounded people.
Toward enemies.
Toward the world Jesus has not abandoned.
The argument for Jesus Christ leads finally to the life of Jesus Christ becoming visible through people who follow Him.
Not perfectly.
Honestly.
Not through domination.
Through service.
Not through denial of suffering.
Through hope inside it.
Not through certainty performed for others.
Through trust practiced when ordinary life becomes difficult.
Jesus Christ was crucified.
Jesus Christ was raised.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
The historical argument asks whether that confession is true.
Monday morning reveals whether we are beginning to live as though it is.
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