“In his book on death and dying called Nothing to Be Frightened Of, the English intellectual and self-avowed atheist Julian Barnes, laments what he doesn’t possess, “What’s the point of faith unless you and it are serious – seriously serious – unless your religion fills, directs, stains, and sustains your life?” Brothers and sisters, this is what the world, our families, our friends, are desperate for: Christians whose love of God and our neighbor “fills, directs, stains, and sustains” our lives. Faith that is serious and most assuredly NOT PRIVATE! Very personal, so personal that we are stained by it, and overflow all over those we love… but NEVER PRIVATE.”
