Emphasis Preaching Journal

Bruce Wilson is an Anglican theologian from Australia. He has a little experiment he likes to try out on groups when he's asked to give a lecture. "First," he says, "I ask people to say what comes immediately to their minds when they are asked to think of someone who is very religious. The answers I receive most often are 'churchy,' 'rigid,' 'pious,' 'other-worldly,' 'judgmental,' 'Bible-basher' ... The next part of the exercise is to ask people the first thing that comes into their minds when they think of someone who could be described as very human."