When I was a teenager, the teen group at church that I went to would often have us go out "witnessing" on weekend nights on one of the main roads in the city, Valley Mills. Valley Mills was where all the older teens and young adults in the area would hang out. Cars cruising up and down the road. Cars with hoods up and people gathered around in parking lots. People just standing around. It was a bigger city and I haven't seen anything close since except a car show here and there, but none of those are even to the scale of what this was.

We would walk up and down the road and stop at every group. Ask them: how their night was; have they heard of Jesus; did they know God has a plan for them. I don't ever remember any of the conversations lasting more than a couple of minutes. I don't remember any of the people we talked to ever showing up at church. I don't remember anything from those times being productive for the Kingdom at all, in my opinion.

Sure, you might say: You're telling people about Jesus, that's productive. In a country that started out with people of faith (the pilgrims) then moved on to being established by people of faith (the founding fathers), that has a section literally called "The Bible Belt", we see TV Shows and movies either mimic or mock Bible stories, how do we think that people haven't heard of Jesus?

The problem isn't that people haven't heard of Jesus. It's they haven't seen Jesus. In the next comics, that is what I want to focus on in this commentary.

There is a dcTalk song that has a quote at the start of it:

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, and walk out the door, and deny him with their life style.

That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."

https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/714

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