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Why Moore College is vital to God’s mission in these challenging times Akos Balogh / External Engagement Manager
Such pressure may cause us to question the truth and goodness of God’s word. Is the Bible trustworthy and true in its views on sexuality and gender? Are its views harmful to vulnerable sexual minorities? The hile my Christian friends were very narrative of harm is a powerful one permeating our encouraging, my non-Christian friends culture, and Christians are not immune from its impact. merely shrugged their shoulders with And so, what Christians need in these times is what indierence. Any negative peer pressure was limited to a they have always needed: faithful men and women who postmodern i‘ t’s great for you, but don’t push your views can teach them the truth of God’s word clearly and onto me’. Our broader culture was neutral and even condently c( .f. 2 Tim 2:).2 They need men and women positive toward Christianity in those days. who do not shrink from declaring the whole counsel of But in the following decades, our secular culture God (Acts 20:).27 moved from being positive or indierent to the Bible, Without such shepherds, the people of God are at to now seeing many of its teachings as harmful and risk of shipwrecking their faith on the rocks of trendy bigoted. Especially in the areas of sexuality and gender. secular ideologies and teachings: ideologies that (in And this cultural change has led to increased today’s West) see the Bible as bigoted and evil. Such pressure on Christians. ideologies can weaken people’s trust in the goodness On the one hand, we feel pressure to keep silent and truth of the Bible. Sadly, we see this in the younger about our faith o ( r at least the aspects of our faith that generation, as some walk away from the faith after touch on sexuality and gender). If we are too vocal swallowing our culture’s narrative about sexuality and about what we believe, we might experience all sorts of identity. pushback: from raised eyebrows, scorn from colleagues And so, herein lies the challenge: in a world that is and friends, or even a memo from the HR department growing ever more suspicious and hostile to Biblical about how such beliefs are not welcome in our i‘ nclusive’ work environment. faith, we need more gospel workers, not less. And we
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