In a 2002 article in Leadership Magazine, Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York, said skeptics and unbelievers make up nearly 30 percent of his congregation. Instead of saying "Christianity is a superior religion," and thereby preemptively cutting off dialog, Keller wisely stresses Christianity's distinctiveness. Example:
... Christianity does not so much offer solutions to the problem of suffering, but rather provides the promise of a God who is completely present with us in suffering. Only Christians believe in a God who says, 'Here I am alongside you. I have experienced the same suffering you have. I know what it is like." No other religion even begins to offer that assurance.
After the World Trade Center tragedy, between 600 aad 800 new people began attending Redeemer. The sudden influx of people pressed the question, "What does your God have to offer me at a time like this?"
I preached, "Christianity is the only faith that tells you that God lost a child in an act of violent injustice. Christianity is the only religion that tells you, therefore, God suffered as you have suffered."
That's worded carefuly as a way of saying, "other religions tell you many good things, too, But Christianity is the only one that tells you this, then you lose a valuable spiritual resource.
Pluralists get stumped by that because they realize that they want the distinctives of Christianity -- a God who has known human pain, salvation by grace, and the hope of heaven -- in their times of need.