When I was in college, I went to a friend’s house for a pool party. I remember it being pretty tame by college standards. The parents were home! However, the dad of the house had a great personality. We told jokes, laughed and carried on.

Later in the evening, we were sitting by the pool and the father asked me what my major was. I told him it was religion. He laughed and said, “Yeah, right.” I said, “No, I’m serious. It is religion.” He asked, “Why religion?” I told him I planned on being a preacher. He said, “A what? You don’t seem like any preacher I know (I took that as a compliment). You laugh and joke and have fun. You seem normal.”

Before I left the party, he said something to me I will never forget: “I’m in my fifties and you are the first Christian I’ve ever met that I enjoy be…