The Everyday Club

3/21/11 Art, early 20’s
To many in the unbelieving world, the most well-known Bible verse is no longer “For God so loved the world…” but rather “Judge not that you be not judged”. This was true of Art, a man I talked with while he walked his dogs at the park today. Art expressed a wide range of religious interests, from wanting to party with the Devil in hell to wanting to become Amish, and he had many questions about the many different religious traditions and beliefs in between. His main point seemed to be that there are too many religions to choose from, and who am I to make a judgment that any one of them are better than the another? One point that made sense to him was to talk about the strategy of Satan, who usually doesn’t try to attract people by exposing who he really is but instead tries to masquerade as God. He has done this from the Garden of Eden – questioning God’s authority and claiming people can be like God – and he has been doing it ever since, even to the point of establishing false religions that bear the name of Jesus. Often when I witness I bring a variety of literature and I decide what would be the biggest help to people based on our conversation. For Art it was a “Why Christianity” booklet that compares the major world religions and shows how only biblical Christianity offers forgiveness from the sin that separates us from God, and also my church and contact info that Art was asking for…