Response no. 2

I think that Christianity's relevance to life, society, or anything else for that matter, lies in its truth. If it is true, then it is the only way we can relate, for it is the way God relates to us. If it were not true then it would not relate in any case.There is nothing new under the sun, so to invent a relevance thru pop culture is superfluous. The only relevance that matters already exists.

Another friend's response. http://www.thethingsunderthesun.blogspot.com/ is where one may find shifty.

I think your take is absolutely correct, but very unpopular. No one ever suggests that conversion to Christ is something you should do because it's the right thing to do. Modernism has made the truth content of a particular idea or system of ideas rather incidental to its value or importance, both in the academy, the popular mind, and the church (or as Kathryn would call it, the i-church).