Attempting to renew my driver’s license as a university freshman, I failed the vision exam, a requirement for license renewal. The test administrator said I needed corrective lenses to pass the test and receive a valid license. In other words, I had to get glasses!
       I scheduled an appointment that same day to have my eyesight checked; after being fitted with corrective lenses, I could see so clearly! I was amazed at how poor my vision had become, how I failed to notice its slow but steady deterioration, and how much I was missing without glasses! A couple days later, I returned to the driver’s license office donning my spectacles and passed the test. The clerk issued my new license, and I have been wearing corrective lenses ever since.
       Why do I reveal this particular short span of my life as the opening of this book? It is amazing to me that I had no inkling of my gradually weakening eyesight. It had only been two or three years since I aced the vision exam to obtain my first driver’s license, yet my eyesight had gone from near perfect to quite pathetic; I was oblivious. My eyes were looking without seeing, and glasses helped me to look and see! This seemingly unimportant sequence of events from my past serves as an adequate illustration of what I believe is going on in America today. Just as my eyesight steadily worsened without my realizing it, our esteemed nation’s worldview is gradually deteriorating, and most people are unaware. I hope to show we can see most clearly when we put on “Biblical Glasses.”
       My motivation for writing this book lies in the corruption I see in the world. While growing as a Christian, I am reminded to “always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks [me] to give the reason for the hope that [I] have” (1 Peter 3:15). I feel like the return of Jesus Christ is near; yet, while I know Jesus commands His followers to proclaim the Good News about Him to the entire world (see Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:14-16), I rarely feel confident verbally sharing the Gospel with those who do not first bring up the topic by asking me what it means. Having said that, I think this book is one way I can share the message of Jesus Christ with perhaps more people than I could have reached verbally.
       The first six chapters of this book include primarily the basics of Christianity, the “spiritual milk” (1 Peter 2:2), “the elementary truths of God’s Word” (Hebrews 5:12). Chapters seven through ten contain “solid food” (1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12-14) along with the milk in a brief discussion of Christian doctrine. Depending on your spiritual readiness, some of this discussion may be difficult to grasp. C.S. Lewis said:

There are certain things in Christianity that can be understood from the outside, before you have become a Christian. But there are a great many things that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road. ... Whenever you find any statement in Christian writings which you can make nothing of, do not worry! Leave it alone. There will come a day, perhaps years later, when you suddenly see what it meant.

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