“To The Point" What do wc mean by a point less jokr or a pointless remark? Wc mean, of course, that the thing was not worth saying, however true it may have been. Wc want people to speak to the point. If we are going to listen to them wc w ant them to be saying something that is worth saying, something we'll be worse off for not knowing. Now again Jesus' teaching was | pointed truth in this sense. It was relevant truth, it was truth dealing with specific situations. He came I "down to brass tacks’’ as we say His teachings did not float away up in the clouds, they came down to earth and walked there. They ' had to do with people's real prob lems. And what we shall find out. if wc study Jesus’ teachings faith- ; fully, is they deal with our prob lems today too. The problem of the demands —sometimes seeming to conflict—of church and state, of country and conscience; the prob lems of death and of the life be yond; the problem of how best to serve and obey God; these con cerned the men of ancient Judea, they concern us no less. Jesus' words arc just as pointed today as they were nineteen centuries ago 'Bavrd on outline-- cnp\righted h\ (hr llivlsinn of ( hnviUtu ( d tic o 1 ion . N .< - Oopol f'ounrtl of Ihr 1 hurrhr* of t hrivt lo thr 1 v \ lOlA-ril hv Community I’rrSh Sort Irr. ) W The Difference Patron: "That barber down the street has cut his prices down to •10 cents for a haircut." Barber 'after a withering si lence: "Yeah? Weil, a good bar ber cuts hair and a poor one cuts prices "

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