I’m reading The Heart of Evangelism by Jerram Barrs, founder and Resident Scholar of the Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theology Seminary. A few days ago, a quote caught my eye. The funny thing is that it has nothing to do with evangelism, but about how good books point us to Christ:
Great literature deals with the human condition in all its sorrow and in all its joy. It asks the difficult questions that confront all human beings and sometimes answers those questions accurately. This is so whether it is a Christian or a non-Christian who is writing the book. People live in God’s world whether they acknowledge Him or not, and they are made in His image whether they believe in Him or not. Therefore they are constrained by the reality around them and the reality within them to wrestle with truth (p. 119).
JAMES PRUCH 