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2.  The Truth and Beauty of Jesus Christ (Read or Listen)

Suppose that you go to visit a person who does not know how to read English and is about to drink a bottle of iodine. Because of your compassion and natural love of life, you feel obliged to stop him. To stop him without force, you will have to persuade him of two things. First, you must persuade him that iodine is poison and may kill him. You will amass your evidence: "Look, this mark on the label means, Don't drink it. It is made to put on the skin. Look here are the instructions. Take my word for it. My experience is reliable. I have no reason to lie to you." You build your case, and he is persuaded. You have convinced him. His doubts are gone. He is converted to your opinion.

But he puts the bottle to his lips and begins to drink. "Wait," you say, "Do you want to kill yourself?" And he says, "Yes." And you immediately realize that if you want to save his life, there is a second thing he must be persuaded of—the value of living. You can convince him with irrefutable arguments that he is dead if he drinks and alive if he doesn't. But none of those arguments will save him if he doesn't care. If his depression is great, and his heart is heavy, and his mind is stifled with frustration, proof that iodine is poison is powerless to save.

Something else has to happen. ... (read more)

3.  He wanted his countryman to have the Bible in their own language.  For his trouble he became an outlaw, on the run from the authorities for many years.  Eventually he was captured and put to death.  

'Always Singing One Note - A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale lived and died' 

Read or listen to Dr John Piper on William Tyndale, the man who gave us our English Bible.

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