*IF* this country is to be rescued, it will only be through an obedient Church, returning to its first love and presenting the Gospel to a lost culture.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen comments on blogs that say that “the gospel is not enough”. . .in so many words.

Brothers and Sisters, the Gospel is not only enough, it is all we have!

The Bible says, “Bless is the nation whose God is the Lord. Unrighteous men are not going to honor God by making godly laws. Only righteous men will do that, therefore, we must be fishers of men.

I am not saying individual believers can’t be politicians. What I am saying is that it is not the calling of the body of Christ as a whole. The calling of the collective body is to win people to Christ (through word and deed) and to present them to Him at His coming.

I can’t convince myself to agree with the conclusion in the above quote. Everything a christian does to or for another human being has eternal consequences to either or both the other person and the christian himself. A christian will account before God for everything he or she did in life. The life of another human being may be influenced for all eternity by a christian person without the latter having necessarily preached the gospel to that other human being. For example, a born-again christian legislator may have caused passage of an education law that allowed a poor kid to go to college. That kid was led to Christ through a student ministry and was saved. Here we see how a non-evangelizing, non-preaching act of the christian legislator affected the life of the poor kid for all eternity.

The article may be addressed to full-time preachers, evangelists and church workers. But the dualist secular-spiritual approach to christian service always fail to capture the richness and potential “revolutionary” nature of Christianity.

“God is not calling us to wage a culture war that would seek to transform our countries into “Christian nations.” To devote all, or even most, of our time, energy, money, and strategy to putting a façade of morality on the world or over our governmental and political institutions is to badly misunderstand our roles as Christians in a spiritually lost world.”

Its good to have the clear Biblical understanding on our Christian call and do accordingly lest we hear the Lord say, I don’t know you when we see Him face to face.

So, though we cannot transform a social or political climate apart from – or outside of – the proclamation of the Gospel message, the life-changing power of the Holy Spirit in the hearts and lives of born-again people should begin to impact their homes, families, workplaces, etc.

This was much of the contention & desires of the Puritans. They sought to live in such a manner that the Gospel touched every aspect of life. Kind of an all of Scripture for all of life mentality. As a result, the culture of Europe slowly began to change and the acceptance of God’s Word, his truth, gradually permeated into most areas of society.

I would agree it is useless to attempt an “end around”, where Christians try to instigate moral change exclusivly through social or political activism – and apart from God’s ordained means of true reformation. Yet, I firmly believe, as Paul and the other apostles went forth into the world, preaching the Gospel of repentance and faith – they too firmly believed that the Lord’s message of hope and salvation would have far reaching implications and would really and truly transform, not only the hearts and minds of individuals, but as the indivduals apply God’s truth in their own lives – the power of God’s Word would transform cultures and nations as well.