There is a very nice book for children that is titled, The Way Things Work. It uses cartoons and diagrams and simple explanations to help young children understand the operation of such things as a magnet, a light bulb, a water faucet, and even a car engine and a computer. These are things that children see working every day. They even have to work with some of them. It is important for them to understand how these things work so that they will understand how to work with them.1

We need to know how the Christian faith works, too. We know that the Christian faith can make a difference in our lives, but how does it do that? How does it work? At first the answer to that question seems obvious. If you just follow the rules and live according to the wisdom of the Christian faith, it will chang…