“Salt is nice, but when salt has misplaced its style, how shall its saltiness be restored?” (Luke 14:34).
The dominoes of fact and morality are falling at an alarming pace in our tradition. Every day there appears to be one other assault upon Christian values and spiritual freedom. We shouldn’t be shocked. For one factor, Jesus warned us that it could be this fashion (Matt. 10:22). Also, historical past tells us that as a tradition slides into ethical decline, its folks flip in opposition to the ideas upon which that tradition is constructed.
In America, that’s the Judeo-Christian custom. The query is, how will we face cultural challenges head-on and lead our nation again to the Lord?
I posed that query to my buddy and famend thinker and theologian, Dr. Os Guinness, on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. He says the greatest tragedy in American tradition shouldn’t be that Christians aren’t storming Washington, D.C. it’s that they’re not what they need to be proper the place they’re.
Our tradition is systematically relegating folks of religion to the shadows of public life, and the penalties are immense. As our spiritual freedom is eroded, folks of religion are barred increasingly from public discourse. A debate isn’t a debate if just one aspect is allowed a voice.
We want to suppose globally. But we want to act regionally inside the sphere of our particular person calling. Individually, we’re not referred to as to save the world. We’re referred to as to be trustworthy wherever our circle of affect could also be – whether or not that be as homemakers, lecturers, attorneys, cab drivers, or political leaders.
To be salt proper the place we’re.
I hope you’ll take a couple of minutes to hear to my dialog with Dr. Os Guinness as we deal with the ethical decline of our nation in a approach that’s eye-opening but in addition inspirational. Listen in your native radio station, on-line, on Apple Podcasts, or take us with you on our free cellphone app. Before I shut, I’d like to remind you that on September 5, we’re releasing Truth Rising, our highly effective documentary movie in collaboration with the Colson Center, that includes Dr. Guiness. To join free entry to the international premiere, click on right here. Or name 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459).