Having only an ambiguous common sense of what a religion belie frefers to，I，from childhood till teenage hood in China，have never beenas sociated with religiosity．Church seemed so distant away from me thatit seemed only half real．However，religion and churches here in the us seem to hold an entirely different significance．Everyone in ESL held are ligious belief of catholic for being as a Hispanic they consider in-evitable taking on what their family regard as sanity．Fortunately enough for me，I got a chance together with my parents going to a near by church on Friday and that was the very point in my life when I first gotmy way to the understanding of what a religion was．
Arriving around five in the afternoon，we soon found out that peo-pie in the lobby had been begun putting the self-prepared dishes on．“They were all the pious Chinese Christians for years who came up here every week or so．” A friend of my dad told us watching us confused with bit astonishment．Meanwhile nlore people went in and the hall soon became crowded and noisy because people began gathering together eating meals．As newcomers．it was hard for us to find a seat for every-where is occupied by people who seemed to know each other well．Somehow．we under the help of someone warm-hearted quickly finished our medl simply wailing for the events coming up next．
After waiting for about an hour, a lecture was held．The lecturerw as a Taiwanese who had been in the us for years．He spoke in Chi-nese mainly starting from the very moment he took his first trip here in Iowa．It was kind of fun listening to his experiences as a foreign stu-dent．He described to us with a considerable sense of humor how he first interacted with Christianity not at all believing in it all the way up to tsoday where he gave up his previously prestigious jobs only to be achurchman．The point，he addressed，between a believer and non-be-liever was obviously that the non-Christian believed Jesus to be an ap-parently non-existent in the substantial world．However，he pointed out that perspectives viewed from those who only substantially believe what the world is made up of was wayward physiological．One could not has tily form a worldview that things couldn"t seen by human eyes do not exist．This is the way he led us non-believers to think．
One could of course not fall in one faith only after such a lecture given like this．However，the thought-provoking lecture left me with adeep impression on what religion was about．With the singing of the choir echoing through the whole church，I stepped out of the church．Under the already dark sky，I looked back at the church，a experience of holiness and uniqueness．