Quoting, and Being Quoted
Have you ever typed your name into Google to find out what web pages come up? Yesterday Mike (who is now out of the hospital) was visiting, and we started typing in people's names. Eventually we typed in my name...I knew what would come up; a whole slew of websites I run.
But occasionally I go exploring on the internet, looking at sites that link to mine, or make reference to mine. Sometimes I find sites where people have quoted things I've written on my websites.
There's a website out there that has reproduced in its entirety (with my permission) my story "The Invisible Man" (a retelling of Acts 3:1-10).
Recently, I found a research paper written by a group of students at Xavier University, in which they quoted my article on my "Bible Thoughts" page about taking responsibility for our own actions.
I also found a paper by an Education Major at Central Michigan University, in which the author provided a very nice review and analysis of my Classic Hangman Game at The Problem Site. (I've emailed that student, requesting permission to re-publish her paper here on this site...I'm still waiting for a response.)
The one I discovered yesterday when Mike and I were browsing was an article at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. A page on my "Ask Doug" website is listed as a reference in the bibliography of one of their articles.
Now that I've talked about people quoting me, I'm going to turn the tables and quote someone else. Here's a quote by Anthony T. Hanson from his 1962 book The Church of the Servant. I post it here because I think it goes along with my posting a few weeks ago about Christian Ministry In Crisis Mode.
"In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is not his, but Christ’s. Therefore he must not feel too keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end of the day all he can say is, “We are unprofitable servants.” This knowledge, far from inhibiting action, actually releases the Christian from that appalling feeling of responsibility that has driven so many high-minded humanists to despair, even to suicide... Work done conscientiously by the Christian is his share in Christ’s service; but it is Christ’s service, and therefore the Christian need neither be proud because it has succeeded or overwhelmed because it has failed. The service of Christ is supremely expressed in the apparent failure of the Cross."
Posted On Oct 25, 2005 at 4:38 AM
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