Jesus

Read the following story aloud, and then use the questions to start a faith conversation:

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.  He grew up in another village.  He worked in a carpenter shop until He was 30, and then for three years He traveled the country preaching.  He never wrote a book.  He never held an office.  He never owned a home.  He never had a family of His own.  He never went to college.  He never traveled more than 200 miles from the place where He was born.  He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness.  He had no credentials but Himself.
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him.  His friends ran away.  One of them denied Him.  He was turned over to His enemies.  He went through the mockery of a trial.  He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves.  His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying.  When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress.  I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together have not affected the life of man upon this earth as has that one solitary life.

1.  How do you feel when you read about the effect of Jesus' life on our world?
2.  Why do you feel this way?