American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “The name of Jesus is not so much written into history as it is plowed into it.” Sooner or later we must all face the ultimate question of what we will do with him.
There are at least four alternatives:
1. You may be indifferent to him. Pilate sought to wash his hands of Jesus. He thought he could decide not to decide about him. That is never really an option to us. We don’t have to make up our minds, but we do make up our lives. Time keeps marching on, and by our indecision we decide against Christ.
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2. We can reject him. Like the angry mob that cried out for Jesus’ blood, we can chose to reject him and seek to be rid of him altog...