Waking People up to Christ

It takes a great deal of freedom and love to be therapeutic with a group. Many years ago when Emil Brunner, the great Swiss theologian, was lecturing in this country, it was reported that when he preached in so-called liberal seminaries he enjoyed dropping “proof texts” from the Bible, and at more conservative or “fundamentalist” schools he smoked big black cigars. He loved people enough to want to jar them out of their stereotyped thinking. He wanted them to be aware that life in Christ was broader than the particular thing they had discovered.