Remember the television show ‘To Tell the Truth’? Three people introduce themselves as the same person; obviously two are lying and only one is telling the truth. A panel probes them with questions about their proclaimed identity before voting for the one they believe. The honest one has a profession that ranges anywhere from a brain surgeon to a circus acrobat. At the end of the show, the host asks for the real one to stand up.
I’m honored to know a man who’s the real deal, a Christian in name and in life. Dr. Christian Isichei likes to say he is nothing apart from Christ. “See, if you take away ‘Christ’ from my name I’m left with just the ‘ian’ and that means ‘I am nothing.’” But because there’s no separation, he IS something, and somebody, who is saving thousands of lives in every sense of the word.
If you were lined up with two other people and you each introduced yourself as a Christian, would you be telling the truth? How would you convince others that it was really you? Could you field the questions thrown your way? Do you think people would be surprised? Would you be able to stand up at the end?
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