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The man on the plus sign

From a conversation between Richard Land and Eric Metaxas:

I read an article in Time magazine about the lack of religion in some parts of America. One couple came to see an Episcopal priest after they had been to a service, and they said, “Our teenage son wants to know who the man is hanging on the plus sign.” They didn’t know it was Jesus and they didn’t know it was a cross. That sounds far-fetched to some of us, but I’ve been some places in our country where it’s not as far-fetched as you might think.

They open some interesting questions about communicating with a culture that not only doesn’t understand Christianese, they don’t even know what Christians are.

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