The Way and ‘Not-the-way’

Somebody has said, ‘There is only one sickness, and that is homesickness.’  Whether modern man knows it or not, that is his chief sickness – he is Home-sick.  He knows that he has one foot in time and another in eternity, and he doesn’t feel at home in either one.  He is afraid of both.  He is afraid because he can’t put these two together and make them come out as sense.  His sums don’t add up.  Something is basically wrong. (E. Stanley Jones, The Way, 1946)

E. Stanley Jones is one of my literary mentors (who died in 1973).  He served 50 years in India, was an evangelist to the world who Time magazine called second to Billy Graham, and worked passionately as an ambassador of peace.   His writings were filled with the confidence that the Christian Way was THE way – not just theoretically,  but by experience.  He would say this with a hundred different vivid examples.  Here is a sample: