In The Relay, George Shamblin catalogs the successes and failures of nine individuals in passing along comparing their faith to the next generations — from the father of all failure, (Adam) to the ultimate Spiritual Rags To Riches success (Paul).
As a result is Christianity itself in peril? “Of course not,” Shamblin notes, “but under the right circumstances. it is endangered in any given region of the world. Consider that, just a generation and a half after John Lennon outraged the West by quipping that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, Europe’s percentage of practicing Christians is in the single digits.”
At the center of his book, not only thematically but literally (chapter six of eleven), is Jesus Christ, whose followers took “the race” to a whole new level and a whole new arena.