C. S. Lewis can tell you. We wouldn’t like to imagine the twentieth century without C. S. Lewis. This Oxford professor came to Christ in his adult years, and his pen has helped millions do the same. It would be hard to find a writer with wider appeal and deeper spiritual insight. And it would be hard to find a more peculiar evangelist than the one who led Lewis to Christ.
He didn’t mean to, mind you, for he himself was not a believer. His name was T. D. Weldon. He, like Lewis, was agnostic. According to one biographer, he “scoffed at all creeds and almost all positive assertions.” Lewis would write that Weldon “believes that he has seen through everything and lives at rock bottom.” Weldon was an intellectual, cynical unbeliever. But Weldon made a comment one day that rerouted Lewis’s life. He had been studying a theologian’s defense of the Gospels. “Rum thing,” he commented (as only a Britisher can), “that stuff of … the Dying God. It almost looks as if it really happened.” Lewis could hardly believe what he had heard. At first he wondered if Weldon was drunk. The statement-though offhand and casual was enough to cause Lewis to consider that Jesus might actually be who he claimed to be.
A thief is led to Christ by one who rejected Christ. A scholar is led to Christ by one who didn’t believe in Christ.
There is no person he will not use.
He Chose The Nails, p. 44. Copyright. W Publishing, 2000,Max Lucado. Used by permission.