Why We Do It
Ultimately, everything every believer does should be for the glory of Christ. We want to magnify and beautify His name in all that we do, bringing attention to the nearly incomprehensible opportunity he provides for us… that we can truly become children of God based on His merits.
We believe that while Jesus is the most famous man ever to have walked the earth, that most people, even in North America, have not been genuinely confronted with the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Dallas Willard says:
The major problem with the invitation now is precisely over-familiarity. Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity – unsuspected unfamiliarity, and then contempt. People think they have heard the invitation. They think they have accepted it – or rejected it. But they have not. The difficulty today is to hear it at all. Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious. Written everywhere, we may think, how could the invitation be subtle, or deep? It looks like the other graffiti and even show up in the same places… from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment media, from confession and controversy, from legend and ritual – Jesus stands quietly at the center of the contemporary world, as he himself predicted…
(The Divine Conspiracy pages 11-12)
When university students are asked about Jesus and the Bible, most will say that Jesus was a good moral teacher and that the Bible has some good ideas in it. While university students are taught to think critically when reading science and history books, they often make uneducated propositions like this when it concerns the contents of the Bible.
Others, from homeless people to business professionals, think that the topic of Jesus is irrelevant to their lives, and many of them have never even read the New Testament, let alone the whole Bible.
It is our intention to proclaim the truth about Jesus Christ and disassemble the fallacy. We want to declare what Jesus really said and did. We want to make a case that the Bible contains a verifiably reliable historical account of the sayings and works of Jesus. We want to encourage people to investigate the Scriptures themselves and come to terms with its message. We want to rely on the work of God to use broken sinners like us, to challenge people to forsake rebellion towards God and have faith in the risen Lord.