Let's suppose, somewhere in the villages of Galilee, you and I heard Jesus speak. And let's give ourselves the benefit of the doubt—let's assume we would have been the kind of listeners he called "good ground," with whom his words would bear "fruit an hundredfold." Luke 8:8.
If so, what would we have done next?
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure I would have needed time to think, and maybe even a chance to talk with you or other people who had heard and seen the same things I had. We might have asked, "Is it possible that God could be so loving, so real, so close as Jesus says He is? And we might well wonder how sick people could instantly become well, lame people walk, blind people see.
