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If You're Winning, You're Not Trying Hard Enough
12/31/2003

This paragraph, from an essay by Richard Mouw, rattled me with its truth:

God is not calling us to win the cultural wars. What is required is that we remain faithful to our deepest convictions while also showing, as the Apostle puts it, "gentleness and respect" toward those who challenge us to make a case for what we believe (I Peter 3: 15). Obviously, when it comes to matters of public policy we must also ask others to respect our convictions as well—especially our right to raise our children in the fear of the Lord without having the deck stacked against us by educators and the shapers of popular culture.

It is for others to change their own hearts. It is for God to succeed on the level of humanity. For us is only to try. Yet, on a personal level, it seems that proper effort ought to bring success at... something. What, I haven't figured out yet.

This world is for this world. But oughtn't there be some indication that we are behaving, in this world, as God requires?

Posted by Justin Katz @ 11:24 PM EST