Epilogue: A Worldview That Views the Whole World
We end
our read through Abdu Murray’s book, Grand
Central Question, with the epilogue. Here Murray ends by summing up that
the Gospel not only affirms the questions that the secular humanist, the
pantheist and the Muslim put forth effort to answer; it, more than any other
worldview, answers them in a satisfactory manner for both our hearts and minds.
It is a comprehensive worldview. He writes:
I like to think that it is no
accident that the word crucifixion has as its root the Latin word crux, which
means the place where things converge or have a turning point. Jesus’
crucifixion is the crux of history, theology and morality. It is the place
where all our Grand Central Questions converge and all our doubts can have
their turning point.
The cross tells humanists how
much God values us by what he is willing to pay to redeem us. The cross is the
instrument by which our suffering is dealt with, showing pantheists the true
hope we have in resolving our pain. And the cross is the event in which the
Greatest Possible Being expresses the greatest possible love in the greatest
possible way in answer to Muslims’ quest to worship the truly great God.1
In this
book, Murray did not try to prove everything by the Gospel but he did show it
answers all of the Grand Central Questions. This leaves both the follower of
Christ and those considering the validity of the Gospel with what he considers the Grand Central Question: Does
truth matter more than comfort? As Murray reflected in the prologue, will
we count the cost the truth demands on an individual level and then accept the
cost by acting accordingly?
If you
have been following along with me through the book, thank you for your
perservence and interest. Let us all take the time to answer and act upon this
final question and ask of God, and of those around us in whom we trust, to give
us accountability and aid to act. The truth of Christ and his work on the cross
is worth it.
Thanks
again to InterVarsity Press for providing the review
copy.
Stand firm in Christ,
Chase
Footnotes:
1.
Page 242.
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