People are coming to Christ as our culture becomes more dark
St Paul before the Proconsul (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In spite of the fact that Britain has been outpacing other western countries in the usual signs of secularization, yet these developments in the last couple years in Britain, have had a new effect on people in the church. It seems now to many believers that true Christians hold views so different from the culture that they wonder if anyone can be converted. I think this is a common feeling. Will deeply secular people, with little or no Christian background, see the moral implications of following Christ as so unimaginable that they treat Christianity as equivalent to the Greek myths of Zeus and Hermes? Here are three biblical perspectives that make that kind of pessimism unwarranted in the church. 1. God is always at work loosening individual people from the group-think of the prevailing culture of unbelief. It is a mistake to look at the “culture” and assume that all the unbelieving people are in lockstep with the spirit o