There Is A God

Vera came to church regularly. Her husband Skip never came. I called on them one evening. When I asked him where he was as far as his beliefs he readily responded. I would describe him as being a dogmatic agnostic. He was absolutely convinced that one could not know for sure whether or not there was a God, it was simply beyond human knowing. He spoke for some
time. Even though I had taken a seminary course in apologetics which dealt with responding to skepticism and intellectual arguments against Christianity, I just kept quiet and listened which must have been by the grace of God. When he finished his lecture I simply asked him if he would be willing to read a book. He agreed and I handed him a copy of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

Like many other thinkers Skip read and soon after accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. What a joy it was to see Skip and Vera in church worshipping together! For anyone struggling with Christianity from an intellectual philosophical perspective I highly recommend that book. C.S. Lewis was an intellectual, an atheist, and an English professor at Oxford College, England. He described himself as “England’s most reluctant convert.” He is best known today as the author of the popular Chronicles of Narnia. Years later I gave a copy of the book to Bill who described it as “most compelling.” He too came to accept the Lord.