The INESCAPABLE CHRIST. No one can do as Pilate’s wife suggested, “Have nothing to do with that just Man” (Mt 27:19). Yet it is possible to follow Christ as the Pharisees did—to argue with Him, criticise Him, find fault with Him. Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote: “The magazines of the world carry a constant stream of articles about Him and His principles. Seldom do we find a word that is truly Christian, but there are millions of words written about so-called Christian things. We do not recall having seen more than half a dozen articles in secular magazines in the last ten years which have been truly Christian. Men follow Christ at a distance and talk about Him and His Word, trying to find an answer for Him that will satisfy the unrest in their hearts. But they will not come to Him to receive the gift of life.” Yet He patiently waits, lingering at the door, because He is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet 3:9).