The church has waited to see what public opinion is going to be and then jumped on the bandwagon. That's been the case with a lot of social changes that we are seeing. Nor does the church properly serve the world by being the Lord's lobby in the courts of Caesar, by becoming a pressure group, another force to push people into this direction or into that. That's not the way the church is to serve the world. The church serves the world the same way fire serves man.
Fire serves man by giving light.
We know of no light that is not a result of fire - firelight, the light of the candle, the light in the incandescent bulb that comes from a little filament that is aflame, but like Moses' burning bush, almost never burns out. So the only spiritual light this world will ever know, will come from a church that is on fire with the truth of God. Then the light shines. We are to shine a light first of all upon the problem so that it can be clearly and properly understood. Then it is the church's job to shine the light of God's Word on the solution.