A Post-Christian World
by Calvin Robinson:
We are living in a post-Christian world. Christophobia is on the increase at home and abroad. The latest data from Open Doors shows that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. Not only that, there’s a growing intolerance towards Christians in the West.
Why might that be? I would suggest it is because Christians have remained quiet for too long – society has forgotten Christ’s teachings.
People often assume that the Church has changed her teachings and adapted to secular norms. Of course, we cannot change our teachings; we must not deviate from Christ’s message, his Good News. But it is easy to see how people may believe we can and have. We have not changed teachings; we have stopped teaching. The Church no longer engages in the crucial conversations around abortion, sexuality, marriage, sin, repentance, forgiveness, and, most significantly, salvation!
There is a discussion within the Church of England, referred to as Living in Love and Faith, essentially debating the Church’s stance on sex and marriage. As a result, ten bishops came out this month supporting gay marriage. Not a single bishop spoke out in defence of traditional Christian teaching on marriage. Not one ‘defender of the faith’ within the CofE defended her doctrine. It seems the liberal progressive bishops would undo 2,000 years of Christian teaching and 4-6,000 years of Jewish teaching that marriage in a Judeo-Christian context is monogamous and heterosexual.
I recently wrote a piece and produced a monologue on the topic of Christian marriage and encountered possibly the most immense backlash I’ve ever received. I have said some controversial things in my time, but I did not consider this among them. It is as if many people didn’t expect a Christian cleric to speak from a Christian perceptive.
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