There are many difficult societal issues that Christians must confront and find a way to navigate through. And we need strong family values to help our family members walk through the “minefield” without significant damage. But our families and our society needs more from us:
The issues that confront Christians in a secular society must be faced and addressed and legislated, and a democracy gives Christians every right to express themselves. But we dare not invest so much in the kingdom of this world that we neglect our main task of introducing people to a different kind of kingdom, one based solely on God’s grace and forgiveness. Passing laws to enforce morality serves a necessary function, to dam up evil, but it never solves human problems. If a century from now all that historians can say about evangelicals of the 1990s is that they stood for family values, then we will have failed the mission Jesus gave us to accomplish: to communicate God’s reconciling love to sinners.
–Philip Yancey
May we not fail in the mission He gave us!
May we go beyond politics and laws and family values… into the world with the message of the love of Jesus.