Sir John Kirk, the nineteenth-century British naturalist, once said that if he had his way, there would always be a little child positioned in the heart of London—perhaps in the precincts of Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s Cathedral. And he said that no one would be allowed to contest a seat in Parliament or become a candidate for public office until he had spent a day with that child and passed an examination in the child’s novel methods of thought, feeling, and expression. When I first read that, I thought to myself, What a fascinating idea. And then I realized that is precisely what Jesus
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