Every pastor would like to have the kind of response to a sermon that Peter had on the Day of Pentecost.  Three thousand people were added to the church after Peter had finished.  Even more importantly, three thousand people had their lives profoundly changed. For most of them it was a change that would make them a pariah in their community and even in their own family. Some would go on to die for their faith. Their faith was no surface affair. It involved a complete commitment to the work of God.

There is a tombstone in Scotland on which are carved these words about a man named Angus McDonald: “He was not a particularly religious man, but in all other respects he was an ideal churchman.”

How do you do that--be an ideal churchman without being particularly religious? I am not sure exactl…