This is the "Christ the King" statue from St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan. A nice photo taken by my wife.Living and ministering in a college town affords many opportunities to share the Christian faith with people. Yesterday I had a long discussion with a man working on his Ph.D in philosophy about religion and philosophy. The discussion confirmed to me once again the importance of us Christians getting out there and talking about our faith in Christ with others. Why, well obviously because The Lord commands us to share the Gospel with all people (Matt. 28). But also because there are so many radical intellectual misconceptions that some people have about religion, and about Christianity (even well-educated people), if they know anything about it all (e.g. many folk I talk with do not understand the belief that Jesus is both God and man!). And also because secular/agnostic folk very often have many presuppositions about science, ethics and morality, the nature of knowledge, and so on that - if for nothing else but the sake of intellectual honesty - need to be corrected somewhat. In the context of such discussions the inconsistencies in their thinking and that they are not even aware of usually come out. And sometimes some of our own inconsistencies come out too! More important, I often find in these encounters that these folk often have very basic spiritual problems that they are struggling with, and which have perhaps lead to their secularistic views (e.g. forgiveness; anger; etc.).
