V.I.P.

One of the most encouraging and rewarding things about the Christian religion is the fact that it is extremely personal. As busy as he was, Jesus was never too busy for the individual. The gospel comes to us as individuals, as well as to the whole world. What difference does the individual make? God’s system is based upon the individual. Harry Emerson Fosdick once put it this way, “It is clearly true that in the long run, everything good or bad depends on the quality of individuals.”

The letters V.I.P. were made familiar during World War II. One given the …