A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
God is a placebo for your own mortality.
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.