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I sat by Dennis Deyoung on a flight from Chicago to Jacksonville about 10 years ago. I told him I liked his music a lot and asked him why they chose the name Styx (river that runs through hell). He said they were given 5 names by the promoters and that one seemed the "coolest".

He had just survived a bought with cancer. I knew I would never get another chance, so I asked him where he would go if the plane were to crash. He got a little combative and responded, "Isn't that the main question in life...where are we going to go?".

I told him that he should and could know the answer to that question. I was able to explain the Gospel message to him...that Jesus saw that we had all fallen because of sin and came down to pay the price for us (death on the cross). Because of what he did, we can know where we are going when our plane goes down! I then gave him an A.W. Tozer book (Chicago Pastor) and wished him well. I hope he is doing well spiritually...

That's a very cool story, Jan. That he wasn't completely offended or didn't blow you off when you brought up the subject says a lot about him, I think.

Interesting trivia about the band's name.