In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we look into why Christians believe the New Testament is not just a collection of historical texts, but it is the personal word of Jesus continuing to lead and guide his followers today.
"It's easy to have an airbrushed view of history from the safe distance of many years past. I wonder, as we look back on the events of the first Easter, we can think it's all obvious and inevitable. Jesus had to die and then rise. That's what Christians believe.
"But if you think about what it must have been like for his first disciples, how scary and bewildering was the whole thing. They'd left everything to follow this man for three years, and they'd seen him do amazing things. But he kept saying he had come to die until he said, the hour has come and I must go.
"Maybe sensing their confusion and their fear, Jesus said in John chapter 16, I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own. He will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me, because is it from me that he will make known all this to you?
"Jesus is saying as he goes, he won't leave them in the dark, but he will continue to guide and speak, and teach them by His Holy Spirit, a unique promise to these first disciples. But as they write it down in what we have as this New Testament, he continues to speak in ways that everyone can hear and understand."
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