I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that I came to first hear about the Gospel from Bono. My best friend Mia gave me a book on Bono and there is this one chapter where he discusses his faith. There, he illustrated for me what the Good News of the Gospel is all about. The quote from above was especially compelling for me. I've since learned that he is echoing the argument of the great Christian author, C.S. Lewis. In his book, Mere Christianity, Lewis says:
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell.
You must take your choice.
Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."
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