Our sin, His holiness-they don't mix. People cringe at the thought that He'd ever leave us. Worse, that He'd destroy us. We don't see God that way. We don't want God that way. We want the understanding, caring, merciful God. The loving God.

I'm out.

The one who always stays. no matter what we do. Because sin just isn't that big to us. That serious. That costly. We want the one who'd never say, "I'm out." I will remember her always. I tell her story nearly everywhere I go.

Early on in their marriage she had come to faith in Jesus Christ. She had shared it all with her husband. The more she grew in faith, delighted in scripture, and saw the Lord miraculously answer prayer, the more she told him. She just kept on telling him. A thousand times, she'd invite him to come to the prayer meetings. A thousand times he pushed her away.

He was the author of many books and articles but the one I have found most helpful is Christianity and World Religions. In it he addresses how Christianity relates to other faiths, and in what sense Christianity is unique.

This claim maintains that at one specific point in space and time God gave a definitive disclosure of himself in the historical form of Jesus of Nazareth. The Absolute has come into our midst in Jesus. This claim is disputed by those who do not believe that Christianity is unique. Stephen Neill observed that the Christian claim "is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system.