Mosaic Boston

In our text this week, the Apostle Paul is on trial before King Agrippa, a person who has the authority to either free Paul, or crucify him. Instead of giving a pure defense, proving how all the trumped up charges against him were utterly baseless, Paul starts preaching the Gospel to Agrippa. At this point, Agrippa screams out: “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.” Does Christianity make you crazy? That's the question we're dealing with this week. Indeed, there are lots of people who claim to be Christians, and do really fanatical things that absolutely contradict the teachings and life of Christ. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm thinking of people whose lives and life choices make absolutely no sense apart from Jesus Christ. People like Mary, Paul, Peter, John, James, Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm, Francis of Assisi, Mother Teresa, William Wilbeforce, Dietrich Boenhoffer, Martin Luther King Jr. and many, many more. These are people who lived lives of re