Does Christianity Make A Difference?

We live in a society in which Christianity and the church have become irrelevant. And, if the Christian is just as likely as the non-believer to collapse under sorrow, if his life (the Christian’s life) is just as frustrated and unsatisfied as the life of the non-Christian, if he is just as worried and anxious, just as nervous and restless, just as guilty of petty dishonesty, of self-seeking, of measuring everything by material values as the man who makes no profession of Christianity [in other words, if we’re just like everybody else], then quite clearly no one will want Christianity because the obvious conclusion is that it makes no difference anyway.

William Barclay. The Lord’s Prayer, pp. 49-50.

Nietzsche, who was a famous German pagan philosopher said, “Show me that you are redeemed and then I will believe in your redeemer.”