Sinclair Ferguson

And I've often thought, I think because occasionally it has actually happened in situations where I'm still puzzled how it happened, people will have said, are you by any chance a Christian?

I remember we stopped on the road one day in Scotland because there was an elderly lady and we could see she was standing beside her car off the highway.

And we stopped to see if we could help in any way.

And after a minute or two of conversation, this lady said to me out of the blue, she said, are you a Christian minister?

And it was like, if she'd said, are you an angel?

I wouldn't have been even more surprised.

And I think...

Why does that not happen more often?

In a world where Christians are so much a minority culture, is there not more about us that smells of the glory of God for people to notice?

And so, I mean, even in kind of minor experiences like that, and I confess, I think maybe to my shame, it's happened a few times, but not all that often.

And I thought, oh, that story really is true.

There should be something about us that is so different that even if people don't understand it, they see that there is a difference.

And in a sense, everything is wrapped up in that first question and answer to Shorter Catechism.

So, I mean, it's fantastic, really.

Yeah.

I mean, I've just often thought this is really interesting because...

I guess in my earlier years, one of the great techniques for evangelism was to go out into the streets and sing.

We're just taking a survey of what people think.

And I was never very comfortable with that because I thought, that's not really upfront about what you're doing.

You're not really being honest with people.