Most Christians do not realise how pathetic the church has become. We have lost the battle in the market place of ideas. We now have a totally different, diverse, but definitely anti-Christian culture. It is hard for Christians to understand that we are living in a very hostile world.
The only reason that there is not intense hostility between the Church and the World is that the Church is now so feeble. We are no longer a challenge to the world. The church is now a weak and ineffective minority. We sometimes act as if we were still the dominant culture, but we usually end up looking foolish. Like a senile old man re-living the glories of the past, the world humours us, but behind our back it laughs.
The world mocks the church. To be mocked is the ultimate insult; it means that we are no longer a threat. The world does not take the church seriously. When it does acknowledge the church it is hostile.
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