In his delightful and fascinating memoir, the late Calvin Miller mused about what he would do differently if he could live his life again. He elaborated on several changes. Among them he said:
"I would build myself a replica of Golgotha, an Everest of Calvary, so high that the empty cross at the summit would be hidden by the mists of sheer altitude. I would keep a shrine at the top of my giant Calvary, with no sugary idols where the dying was done. I’d have no icons there, for the living Jesus who has been the central icon of my life would meet me there."
Mike Shannon is professor of preaching at the Russell School of Ministry of Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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