The mission is critical.

According to the Chicago Tribune, we are livinig in

;l;l;l;l;l;l;l;l;l"a world under the spell of the tyranny of amnesia."

Author Leland Ryken puts it this way.......

l;;l;l;l;ll;l;;l;l"......the tragedy of the moment is that people in our;culture are ;l;l;l;l;increasingly in the situation of Nicodemus in the New Testament: ;l;l;ll;lthey are strangers to what is best in their own traditions."

Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective, quoted by Heraold Shaw, "Why We Readlthe Classics," Christianity Today, February 10, 1992.