In Center Church, Keller writes:
In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, two men - Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton - both love the same woman, Lucie Manette, but Lucie chooses to marry Charles. Later, during the French Revolution, Charles is thrown in prison and awaits execution on the guillotine. Sydney visits Charles in prison, drugs him, and has him carried out. When a young seamstress (also on death row) realises that Sydney is taking Charles's place, she is amazed and ask him to hold her hand for strength. She is deeply moved by his substitutionary sacrifice and it wasn't even for her! When we realise that Jesus did the very same thing for us, it changes everything - the way we regard God, ourselves, and the world.
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