Gandhi
"Almost you persuade me to be a Christian." – King
Agrippa (Acts 26:28)
When Mahatma Gandhi was attending university in London, he
became almost convinced of the validity of Christianity,
seeing it as possibly the one true supernatural religion.
After graduation, he continued to seek evidence that would
persuade him to become a committed Christian. When he
accepted employment in East Africa, and lived with a family
who were members of an evangelical Christian church, he
believed this would be his greatest source of evidence for
the Christian faith.
Gandhi lived with this family for seven months, but after
seeing their causal attitude towards God, hearing them
complain about making sacrifices for Christ, and becoming
acutely aware of their religious apathy, he became
disillusioned.
"No," he concluded, "Christianity is not the one true,
supernatural religion I had hoped to find. A good religion,
but just one more of the many religions in the world." While
the circumstances were vastly different between King Agrippa
who heard Paul's testimony and rejected it, Gandhi, too, was
almost persuaded to become a Christian not because of a good
testimony, but because of a Christian's poor one. May God
grant that that may never be true of you and me.
by Dick Innes, Daily Encounter www.actsweb.org/detoday . Used by permission.