Wilberforce & the Revival of Christian Culture

Oct 28, 2016 by

by Joe Boot, Ezra Institute:

I wrote recently that the great question of our time for the believer is how the Word of God relates to our life in the world. As Christians, and especially Christian leaders – in church, media and arts, law, politics, business, education or any other sphere – the way we answer that question will have lasting implications for society and our children’s children.

Sadly, many Christian leaders, through ignorance or disinterest, neither fathom the extent of the danger presently confronting the church, nor see the opportunity of our age. They have been unwittingly steeped in synthesis thinking – a pattern of thought that accommodates itself to humanistic views of reality that place man and his desires, not God and His Word, at the root and centre of life in the world. However earnestly such people may love Jesus and mean well, this syncretistic mind and hybridized worldview reduces the gospel to either a psychological formula that promises ‘your best life now,’ concerned with getting what we want from life, or a pietistic spirituality that largely allows the world to go its own way and looks forward to being delivered into heaven and out of this age – preferably as soon as possible.

Life and history become something from which the Christian is being delivered, not something we are called to engage and see restored and renewed in Christ. The kingdom of God is shunted off to the eschaton and God’s present reign is restricted to ‘my soul’ and some limited church activities. As a result our Christian communities are often entangled in all kinds of perspectives on life and culture whose root is found in the empty philosophies of the mortal enemies of the true, full gospel of the rule and reign of King Jesus.

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