by Sandy » Fri May 13, 2016 2:25 pm
Stephen's comments and irrelevant gab about Billy Graham, Rick and Bubba notwithstanding, the NPR piece on Mohler is a good discussion of the culture war, and does a good job characterizing the perspectives.
There are several things that "popular culture" has determined are right, by their own evaluation and standards, lacking an understanding of Christian faith and Biblical principles. They can't seem to understand that having different, specifically defined roles in church communities for men and women is by design, and is objectively supported, and not "gender discrimination." And of course, they don't get the perspective on homosexuality. They also don't get that it's not really an effective strategy to attempt to use some other pseudo-Christian perspective to convince evangelicals and conservatives that they are wrong on these issues.
On the other hand, there's this statement by one of the participants in Mohler's conference, as reported by NPR:
"Christians are called to protest and to witness to what the Bible claims to be right and wrong."
I don't think so. Christians are called to be "salt and light," but in order to do that, they aren't called to "protest" anything. A lot of Christians, especially conservatives, seem to miss this point, and don't understand that attempting to legislate Biblical values doesn't work any more than protesting what's wrong works. Only Jesus can judge the thoughts and intentions of the soul, and only Jesus can change it. And only Jesus can change someone's definition of what's right and what's wrong. A good study of James 2 and 3 might set some people straight.