Excellence in Preaching by Vibert Simon;

Author:Vibert, Simon; [Vibert, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thirdly, he told a familiar joke about a neighbour’s dead rabbit apparently coming back to life. In the joke, a woman noticed her dog running around with the neighbour’s dead rabbit in its mouth. Embarrassed by her dog’s behaviour, she bought a replacement and put it in the cage. This caused huge shock to the neighbour, because apparently the rabbit had died the previous day and been buried in the garden, and the dog had dug it up. It ended with the clever line: ‘People in the ancient world knew dead rabbits tend to stay dead. They also knew dead rabbis tend to stay dead.’ He backed this up by quoting from Tom Wright: ‘There were many messianic movements in the first century. In every case, the would-be Messiah got crucified by Rome, as Jesus did.’ And this is what he writes: ‘In not one single case do we hear the slightest mention of the disappointed followers claiming their hero had been raised from the dead. They knew better.’

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