“The ways by which the truth of the gospel comes  home to the heart and conscience of this or that person are always mysterious.   They cannot be programs and they cannot be calculated. But  where a community is living in alert faithfulness, they happen.”

From The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin.

I can just hear Billy’s voice as I read this, urging us to hold the line.  It appears sometimes that there is no one being saved, that we must do something, start some program, trick a few people in.  But there is hope and encouragement in this: “where a community is living in alert faithfulness, they happen.”