But that truth can be hidden, or distorted, or miscommunicated if those entrusted with its message do not take the time to invest their lives in other people and find what makes them tick. Life in post-Christian America is characterized by increasing autonomy, dependence upon a complex technological infrastructure, and a dearth of meaningful relationships. Our culture has fractured the family and destroyed the ability of people to be committed to anything except their own personal peace and prosperity. Christian Reconstruction offers, not just another item on the intellectual and theological smorgasbord, but a life and world view that meets the deepest human needs. But nobody is ever going to believe it, or accept it, unless Reconstructionists actually live it by getting involved with real human beings, caring for them, admonishing them, exhorting them, loving them.
Autonomy inevitably leads to isolation.
Man was not created to live alone, but needs meaningful relationships. With the destruction of the family in the past 50 years, most people, including Christians, do not have in place the social infrastructure God requires to live meaningful, productive and rewarding lives. People are lonely, people are hurting, and we are the only ones with something more than a sugar pill. There are two practical solutions, both interlocking and supporting each other. The first is the creation of a distinctly Reconstructionist literature that is aimed, not at the intellectual elite, but the average man, in the average church.