re-Christianizing Culture

Center for Cultural Leadership
Andrew Sandlin discusses the role of God’s law in society. I will just quote the concluding paragraph:

Finally, what we should we as Christians surrendered the Christ’s Lordship be doing today? Christians in the West today must be incrementalists in their attempt to bring society into greater conformity to God’s will (Mt. 13:31-33). They must gain victories a little at a time. Politics is only one component of that attempt; re-Christianizing the arts, media, technology and education is more vital and pressing than re-Christianizing politics, which is a reflection of a society’s culture. And the preaching of the Gospel is more vital still. Nonetheless, Christians should work peacefully within the structures of constitutional democracy (a form of civil government reflecting clear Biblical principles) to gradually reform the civil realm. In this, I believe that the great 19th century Dutch pastor and theologian and politician Abraham Kuyper was on track. And Greg L. Bahnsen was equally on track when he wrote:

The good news of Christ’s kingdom is that Jesus Christ graciously
and powerfully saves man in the fullness of his created sinful existence. He is a prophet, declaring God’s will for ignorant men. He is a priest, interceding to God on behalf of polluted sinners. He is a king, ruling over all men and all areas of life. The coming of the kingdom, therefore, brings the progressive rule of Christ over the world, the flesh and the devil (1 Cor. 15:25).

Endeavoring to re-Christianize politics is not the main dimension of this general work of re-Christianization (it is less important than evangelism, e. g.), but it is one part of it, and Christians dedicated to Christ’s Lordship in all things should engage in or support it. In today’s society this includes legal protection for unborn children, a Biblical definition of marriage, barriers to invalidly coercive redistributions of wealth, and checks on and balances of political power.