“The church in the world is a lot like the story that E. Stanley Jones tells of the missionary in the jungle. He got lost with nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. He finally found a small village and asked one of the natives if he could lead him out of the jungle. The native said he could. “All right,” the missionary said, “Show me the way.”
They walked for hours through dense brush hacking their way through unmarked jungle. The missionary began to worry and said, “Are you quite sure this is the way? Where is the path?” The native said. “In this place there is no path. I am the path.”
Our path out of the jungle of this world is God in Christ. We may have some Rabbis, Masters, Father’s, Teachers, and Reverends but we are all like the missionary. We rely not upon men but Christ, who is our path. (Brett Blair, www.eSermons.com newsletter)
