Revisiting Following Christ in the Future

Rick Plasterer on December 20, 2022

Traditional Christians face ever changing and radical challenges from a cultural left bent on destroying Christian faith and morals. Transgenderism, of which many Americans were barely aware before the Obergefell decision imposed same-sex marriage, deciding that issue, and to some extent, the larger issue of homosexuality, for the nation, has now exploded into public consciousness, with severe threats to religious liberty, parental authority, the safety of women and girls, and the personal futures of children in any society that tries to implement its agenda.

But it is good to remind ourselves at Christmas of the eternal truths for which we contend, and why the demands of today’s cultural revolutionaries simply cannot be complied with. An article posted by this writer on Christmas week, 2014, continues to be relevant today, indeed, much if it is always relevant. At that time, the nation was periodically riveted by controversies over state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs), intended to protect against complicity in homosexuality, and stigmatized by the left as “discrimination.” Now, it is not only sexual behavior, but self-defined sexual identity, for which acceptance is demanded, and thus reality itself is attacked in the name of self-assertion.

Christian celebration in such a time and place as we live may be dampened by the thought of the hostile external reality, but we should remember that the eternal truths that bind us never change, and they are also our comfort. The world and Christian institutions in the world may change, but God and his revelation do not change. Reminding ourselves of our responsibility to obey God according to the truth he has revealed is important at Christmas, as is our confidence that on some day, God will make all things right.

This was spelled out in “Following Christ in the Future,” posted on December 22, 2014, and can be viewed here.

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