One of my favorite moments in the epic movie Gandhi is when Gandhi is being driven away in a car from his Hindu community, heading toward a meeting with Jinnah about Pakistan and India.  There are Hindus shouting “don’t do it Bapu”,  and Gandhi has the car stopped and asks “What do you want  me NOT to do?  NOT meet  with Mr. Jinnah?  I am a Hindu,  and a Muslim,  and a Jew,  and a Christian,  and so are all of you!”

I believe in a Christ who is "Cosmic". In other words, Christ reveals himself to the world outside of the Western forms of the church, and CS Lewis affirms in one of his Chronicles stories (the Last Battle) that there are people who serve Christ without knowing its the same Christ that Western Christians claim to serve. If they are raised outside the Christian tradition in a culture that is deeply woven by one of the world’s other religions, how will they experience the truth; the Christ who dwells among us? They will, I propose, respond to the Christ as articulated in the deepest truths of their own traditions, much as Gandhi did.