looked a whole lot more like non-Christians than Jesus, I wasn’t at all surprised. While neither Gallup nor Barna collected any information from my soul, I was sure its dimensions would have fit right in with their sobering conclusions. But then two important sources of information began coming to my attention with increasing regularity. With each encounter I noticed that a little hope would bubble up in my heart. One spring came from the ideas and writings of ancient Christians and the other from