For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more
eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our
gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.