I am currently writing a book on Christianity in the 21st century. After reading Barna’s latest research it would be easy to become discouraged, especially in North America. However, as Rebecca McLaughin points out in this excellent post, we need to move out of the shadows and back into the conversation:
“When it comes to giving reasons for our faith, we Christians are playing far too defensive a game. We’ve believed that Christianity is declining. It isn’t. We’ve assumed Christianity can’t stand up in the university. It can. Too many of us think Christianity is threatened by diversity. It never has been. And too few of us think Christian sexual ethics are sustainable in the modern world. They are. On these and many other fronts, we have conceded far more ground to secularism than it deserves.”
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