A Show Trial

After C.S. Lewis died on Nov. 22, 1963 (same day as J.F.K. by the way) his personal secretary, Walter Hooper, began compiling Lewis' massive amount of literary works. One of the results of Hooper's work became a book entitled, God in the Dock, a collection of essays on various theological and apologetic themes. The reason for the title is that Lewis believed modern human beings, rather than seeing themselves as standing before God in judgement, prefer to put God on trial and stand as his judge. In our passage from Luke tomorrow at MBC we will see Jesus put on on trial. Or to use the British term, Jesus is placed in the "dock." We will see there was not just one trial but muoltiple trials and we'll also see a gross miscarriage of justice at all of them. But what we will see most of all is that we are the ones who are really in the dock and how the grace of God reaches us even when his one and only Son is enduring human injustice to the extreme.