Half an hour ago you were sitting five miles up in the sky, having your dinner and watching a film. Sophisticated computers landed the multi million pound aircraft you were sitting in. Moving footpaths guided you through a modern glass terminal building where your luggage glided out to meet you on a conveyor belt. You made your way past banks of computer monitors keeping you abreast of the comings and goings of hundreds of other similar aircraft, and in the middle of all of this, here's "Astrology World" offering to tell you your fortune by reading the leaves in your tea cup!

It's not just incongruous; it's ludicrous isn't it?

Or maybe not. Perhaps, Astrology World is saying something which we Christians ought to be listening to.

Perhaps they're saying that the International Jet Set aren't the rational, sophisticated, got-it- all-together sort of people, they pretend to be.

Oh they look the part all right. Pouring into the Arrivals Lounge with their mobile phones and portable computers and as they stream past you, it would be easy to believe that modern man abandoned all thoughts of the mystical and the spiritual, a long time ago; that the dying embers of the 20th century has seen man finally degenerate into a totally secular being.

I think that some years ago, sections of the church began to believe that, and gave up. They gave up the fight to convince modern man that there was a spiritual dimension to life. And they stopped catering for it. Many pulpits abandoned spiritual preaching in favour of humanistic teaching. We ceased condemning and began tolerating. Sin no longer existed, only anti-social behaviour.

Modern man had stopped going to church and in an attempt to draw him back the church abandoned the only reason he had for going.

Now I think that astrology is at best mumbo jumbo; but at worst it's a heavy involvement in the occult and I wouldn't touch it with a very long stick, but I believe that Astrology World is right. Like them, I believe that people, even the bright, sophisticated shakers and movers that travel through the world's airports from one business deal to another, aren't as secular, rational and dismissive of spiritual matters as many Christians seem to think.

The electronic filofaxes may have fooled the Christian Church but they haven't fooled the owners of "Astrology World". They know man has a deep spiritual void aching to be filled, and so they have opened a modern shop, dabbling in the occult, bang in the middle of an International airport.