We live in an increasingly secular
society today. If you are a baby boomer or older can tell
others of how much society has changed since the 1950’s,
starting very rapidly when prayer was removed from our
schools in 1963. If you are younger, you can still testify
to the rapid change that has taken place in just the last
fifteen years.
The church, for the most part, has
remained unchanged. We hold the same doctrines that we did
2000 years ago. Our Bible, although translated into many
different languages, says the same thing it did when it was
written.
Our music has changed some and the
buildings have too, but our core values are the same fifteen
years ago as they were fifty years ago as they were 2000
years ago. This means that we continue to grow farther and
farther away from what is normal for society. Or perhaps we
stay the same while society moves further and further away
from what was once considered normal. Regardless, the chasm
between evangelical Christians and the rest of the world is
growing larger. We can’t relate any longer. Most of us,
myself included, have been in a nice protected bubble where
we don’t even get influenced by secular society any longer.
Unfortunately, if we have kept society
at an arm’s length away so it can’t influence us, we’re also
too far away to influence it. So without compromising any
moral values, we need to take at least one step toward a
secular society in hopes of relating to it and being able to
influence it and reach the lost for Jesus Christ. This
brings us to foundation block #1.
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