Alan Jones -
One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases we have to reply on secondhand info in order to function. I accept the word of a physician, a scientist, a farmer, on trust. I do not like to do this. I have to because they possess vital knowledge of living which I am ignorant.
Secondhand info concerning the state of my kidneys, the effects of cholestrol, the raising of chickens, I can live with.
BUT when it comes to question of meaning, purpose and death, secondhand information will not do.
I Cannot survive in a secondhand faith in a secondhand God.
There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.
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