COLSON ON CULTURE
During the greatest resurgence of evangelicalism in this century, belief in the Bible has declined and religious influence has been so thoroughly scrubbed from public life that any honest observer would have to regard this as a post- Christian culture. Gallup reports the most bewildering paradox: religion up, morality down. Why have evangelicals not more effectively influenced the world? We have, I fear, substituted therapy for truth, trivialized our worship, and tolerated–yes, even encouraged–a dangerously low and parochial view of the church. A little like Custer’s lieutenants arguing over mess privileges before the battle at Little Big Horn, we’ve protected our enterprises but in the process lost the culture. Looking at the state of evangelicalism and the state of the culture gives little room for optimism: How can we expect others to take what we profess to believe more seriously than we ourselves apparently do? Charles Colson, Christianity Today, October 5, 1992, pg. 23
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