C. S. Lewis was a 20th century British academic who converted to Christianity in early adulthood. Prior to his conversion he had not been, as many people are, vaguely indifferent to faith and religion; he had been a professed atheist. Following his conversion, he spoke and wrote with deep commitment as a Christian apologist. In Mere Christianity, he wrote:
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about [Jesus]: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
Holy Week begins Palm Sunday, March 28. Holy Week is a time to honor Jesus as none other than the Son of God, to fall at his feet in awe and worship. Holy Week is also a time, like no other time, to meet and know Jesus as the Son of God present in our lives today.
