I have reservations about the accuracy of this title (the most important question of all is ?Who is Jesus?? but I believe that ultimately he asks it, even if he uses our mouths), but I?m pressing on. Assuming that Jesus asks people who they think he is, the two most important questions we can ask in conversation are ?What do you mean?? and ?How do you know??
These two simple questions will deliver you from having to know
Chuck Colson?s life consisted of two distinct 40-year segments. In the first, he was a hard-charging, win-at-any-cost kind of guy. Initially gaining fame as Richard Nixon?s ?hatchet man,? he once famously said that he would walk over his grandmother to serve the president.
In the second season of his life, Chuck was a redeemed felon, an advocate for prisoners? rights, and an inspirational mentor. For many in my generation, he came to embody the very notion of grace. No wonder that one of his favorite historical figures was John Newton, the former slave ship captain, who penned the song Amazing Grace. Chuck experienced grace at a very deep and personal level.
?I shudder to think of what I?d been if I had not gone to prison,? he once reflected. ?Lying on the rotten floor of a cell, you know it?s not prosperity or pleasure that?s important, but the maturing of the soul.?
I have reservations about the accuracy of this title (the most important question of all is ?Who is Jesus?? but I believe that ultimately he asks it, even if he uses our mouths), but I?m pressing on. Assuming that Jesus asks people who they think he is, the two most important questions we can ask in conversation are ?What do you mean?? and ?How do you know??