Endnotes
1 I owe much of the observations in this point to Andrew Katay, who is a pastor in Sydney, Australia.
2 Bible quotations in this essay are from the NIV as found on biblegateway.com.
3 I owe the observations here to Peter Ritchie, from FOCUS, which is a ministry to the military in Australia.
4 I learned this particular question from Wendy Potts and Stephen Dinning, who are evangelists in the Wollongong area of Sydney.
5 I learned this question from my friend L-T Hopper. I heard him casually ask this question to our server at a café. Interestingly, our server wasn’t offended at all by the question. Instead, he sheepishly answered, “No, but I know I should.” These days, people might not yet want to know about the Christian faith, but they also know they should be pursuing some connection spirituality.