I found this in an article about the Dead Sea Scrolls of all things.  While the parts of the article about the Dead Sea Scrolls were interesting I found this part of the article to be especially thought provoking.

The late evangelist Dr. Harry Ironside in Random Reminiscences tells the story of how once he was asked to share his personal testimony of faith in Christ with a group of Salvation Army workers in San Francisco. Ironside accommodated the request and listening that day was one of the early socialists who had made a name for himself by lecturing not only for socialism, but also against Christianity. After Ironside had given his testimony, the man politely handed him a card that read: “Sir, I challenge you to debate with me the question: ‘Agnosticism versus Christianity’ in the Academy of Science Hall next Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. I will pay all expenses.”

Ironside agreed to the debate on the condition the man would bring to the meeting at least two persons with certain qualifications who could prove skepticism in the Bible and Christianity had real value in changing a life and building true character. He must bring a man and a woman, Ironside insisted, who were real “down and outers” – drunkards, or criminals, or pedophiles – persons who had been in the grip of some powerfully self-destructive habit and were a threat or menace to their family and community but were forever changed – rehabilitated as a credit to society; living a clean, virtuous, happy life – all because they had become an agnostic. Naturally, the man who made the challenge declined his earlier invitation for debate because of his inability to meet Dr. Ironside’s conditions.

In a day when Americans are looking for “change they can believe in,” both the written Word of God and the Living Word of God, Jesus Christ, provide that change. What’s disconcerting, however, is the nation seems to be looking everywhere for change except for where it really can and always has been found – in those teachings from the Bible that have been tested and tried in every generation and always found more than sufficient for life’s challenges.