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Equipping the Church to engage the culture with the redemptive mission of Christ
As American culture continues to descend into moral anarchy, secular humanistic schemes, and spiritual ignorance, the only hope for our nation lies in a renewed church that both appropriates and applies biblical truth to the real and pressing problems of our day.
The Center for Christ & Culture exists to support this purpose: Equip Christians with a thoroughly biblical interpretation of reality, rooted in the missional purposes of God in order to press the supremacy of Christ in all things.
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Sadly, over the course of the last
century, we have reduced the gospel to simplistic formulas and
programmatic appeals—appeals that are designed to produce “decisions,”
whereas the gospel of the kingdom is conveyed in various and more demonstrative ways, reflecting the different gifts and diversity of the body. We do not all have the same function or ministry in the kingdom...
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Now that we are standing at the
“crossroads” (having returned to the point of our departure from the
truth), we can now look to the ancient paths: the Scriptures. In doing
so, we can find the right path and recover the broader meaning of the
“good news” or gospel.
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If,
in fact, we have departed from the truth of the gospel, then going back to the point
of departure is the only reasonable course. As C. S. Lewis so aptly
said, “If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn
and walking back to the right road."
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The apocalyptic George Orwell once wrote, “Sometimes the first duty of
intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” While not presuming
myself to be one of those intelligent men, I do think there is a need
to restate the obvious when it comes to renewing the church. And
nothing is more obvious than the fact that we no longer understand the
gospel!
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The goal of learning, wrote the great Christian poet Milton, “is to
repair the ruins of our first parents.” I challenge you to make this
your goal as you pursue higher education. Use this time to gain wisdom,
to better understand the culture in which you live, and form a
consciously Christian understanding of life and reality so that you may
serve God’s redemptive purposes in the world.
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