Christianity Today that ‘Christians who argue for the “objective” truth of Jesus are making a tactical error’, because ‘Jesus did not arrive among us enunciating a set of propositions that we are to affirm’.7 Such decay is evident in the fact that various polls have shown that high percentages of self-proclaimed evangelicals do not believe. A woman I know startled a table of Christian women at a luncheon by saying that her mission in life was to discover the truth and apply it to life. It was, apparently,