The Christian Prejudice

I spoke to a friend tonight on the phone who is struggling with some people in his life who have, let's just say, a less than Christian Worldview. His struggle reminds me of a statement made by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in a speech he gave in 1925 (when he was only 25 yrs old himself). Here are LLoyd-Jones insightful words:

The business of preaching is to give us a new prejudice, in fact the only prejudice that counts--the Christian prejudice....If we do not start with the same prejudice, discussion is quite impossible, because virtually we shall be talking different languages. To a man who has the Christian prejudice all other prejudices are worse than useless, they spell damnation; to the man who possesses those other prejudices the Christian prejudice appears to be madness. Lunatics, as you know, generally think that all other people are mad (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years 1899-1939 by Iain Murray, 67-68).

Here's the issue with my friend. He has what Lloyd Jones calls a "Christian prejudice." Hence, the "lunatics" in his life think he is "mad." We shouldn't be surprised by this. They called Jesus a glutton and a drunkard. There is nothing new under the sun.