11A Worship: Closeness of God

Do you believe in miracles? 

A young hospital patient bandaged up from a horrific accident. Despite all treatments, medications, procedures, his arm has withered and died, the only option is removal. Moments before the amputation he begs the doctor to check his arm again. Without any hope, simply to appease him, the doctor removes the bandage and checks again. The arm has been fully restored. 

Do you believe in miracles?

Most surveys of religious life in America affirm that around 80% believe in miracles. A miracle is not simply an odds-defying, highly improbable, event. A miracle literally breaks the rules of nature.

I believe in miracles. Even as a skeptic (which I admit I am publicly on a regular basis) I’ve heard too much, seen too much, to chalk up what I’ve seen and heard to coincidence or fate. I believe in miracles.

A belief in miracles is an absolute requirement of Christian faith. Without the miraculous, Christianity would not exist. Without the miraculous, Christianity would simply be the most noble (I believe) of all the admirable and competing life philosophies and ethics.

Do you believe in miracles? Christian faith begins with a massive miracle and the miracles keep coming …