The exclusivity of the Christian claim is one of the things our society really dislikes and struggles to comprehend about Christianity. Why do you have to be a Christian?
One way that has been expressed is: "What about people who do what Jesus teaches but don't believe in Jesus? Shouldn't God cut them a break?"1 Why do you have to believe in Jesus or even God? Why isn't it good enough to live they way Jesus wants people to live? How should we answer that?
"OK, Boomer."
It seems like people don't debate anymore. Instead they engage in dismissive mockery. And like so many things that afflict us today, CS Lewis saw it coming more than 60 years ago. Let's look at his diagnosis and consider how to navigate this environment.
This week, I've got a selection of articles I've come across I think you'll enjoy.
If you're one of the many who began this year with a goal of reading the whole Bible, odds are you've already given up. Even if you're someone who has a pretty well-established habit of daily Bible reading, there are probably days that doesn't happen. If you're in either of those categories, that can cause some guilt. If that's you, I have some good new for you:
In the dark, he carries a bag to the garbage. Oh, but he's picking through the garbage for things to add to his bag. And he's very thin. He looks unhealthy. He's probably homeless and probably on drugs. He doesn't see the man come up behind him, but the man speaks to him. Before clubbing him in the back of the head. This is the first of several murders the man will commit.
Thus begins an interesting new project from apologists and police detectives J Warner Wallace (of Cold-Case Christianity fame) and his son Jimmy Wallace called Case Files: Murder and Meaning. Why are apologists writing crime fiction? Well, crime is what they know. But fiction, that has been used for centuries to ask the big questions.
