Emphasis Preaching Journal

It was a totally new way of looking at the world. Most everyone believed the earth was the center of the universe. Scientists believed it and the church agreed. It was the fifteenth century. Then, along came Copernicus, a church custodian by day and an astronomer by night, to demonstrate that the sun was actually the center of our solar system, that the earth in fact revolved around the sun, not the other way around. People went through what could be called "a paradigm shift." Here was a totally new way of looking at the world and it turned out to be right.