In the span of a single lifetime, Europe and the Western world have become almost unrecognisable. Society is hurtling towards hell in a hand basket of moral debauchery. Christians who hold conservative views are seen as dangerous to society. - Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity p10.
In the western world in particular, where Christianity is marginalised and secular culture dismisses it as an ideological has been, where daily we rub shoulders with persons of other faiths and of no faith, and where within the older Protestant churches tolerating the intolerable is advocated as a requirement of justice, Versions of Christianity that care more for the experiences of life than for principles of truth will neither strengthen churches nor glorify God ... The well-being of Christianity worldwide for this 21st century depends, I am at convinced, on the recovery of what has historically been called catechesis- that is, the ministry of systematically teaching people in and coming into our churches the sinew-truths that Christians live by, and the faithful, practical, consistent way for Christians to live by them. J I Packer, What is the future of evangelicalism, Evangelicalism now, Modern Reformation, volume 17:3 2008
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