At Fellowship Bible Church, we used a saying back in the day to signify a moment that makes you speechless. We called it a w.o.w. moment, meaning without words.

I saw a quote today that gave me a w.o.w. moment. It certainly fits in during this holy week leading up to Easter Sunday. Here’s the quote:

“”The One we preach is not Christ-in-a-vacuum, nor a mystical Christ unrelated to the real world, nor even only the Jesus of ancient history, but rather the contemporary Christ who once lived and died, and now lives to meet human need in all its variety today. To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because he assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because he died for us, from the prison of our own self-centredness by the power of his resurrection, and from paralysing fear because he reigns, all the principalities and powers of evil having been put under his feet. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. He introduces us into his new community, the new humanity he is creating. He challenges us to go out into some segment of the world which does not acknowledge him, there to give ourselves in witness and service for him. He promises us that history is neither meaningless nor endless, for one day he will return to terminate it, to destroy death and to usher in the new universe of righteousness and peace.”

I’m not sure who said it. I think it might have been D. A. Carson. Still, it’s pretty amazing, don’t you think?