Change History Again by Outthinking Our Opponents

From The Stream:

Does it feel strange to find Christianity under attack the way it is these days? We see history changing before our eyes, and it doesn’t look good.

Take heart: We’re in good company. Historian Michael Kruger tells us Christians in the second century were regarded as haters and as intellectually lightweight. I’d say that sounds familiar — but not totally, because the Christian movement also grew by about 40 percent per decade during that period. They changed history in all the right ways. That sounds less a lot less familiar.

It sounds a lot less familiar, but there just might be a path back that direction…

Tom Gilson

Vice President for Strategic Services, Ratio Christi Lead Blogger at Thinking Christian Editor, True Reason BreakPoint Columnist

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1 Response

  1. damonjgray says:

    Tom, this is the best thing I have read all day. Well said.

    Your first sub-point reminded me of something I did way back in the 1980s that I’d actually forgot doing. While doing campus ministry at Louisiana Tech University, I offered a tested, graded course in 1st and 2nd Corinthians. I remember one of the girls coming up to me after one session and telling me, “I am taking this class as seriously as every other class I’m taking in college.” That was such a cool thing for her to say!