Despite our increasing political influence, our moral climate has continued to fall, and people think it is getting worse. In hopes of redeeming our nation, Christians have been fighting for laws that reflect Judeo-Christian principles. But this strategy will fall short of redemption. Laws will never redeem because they have no redemptive power. Law cannot cure many current societal ills because they are spiritual maladies.
Newspaper headlines are a daily reminder that our nation is teetering on a precipice.
Christians cannot reach out if both hands are clenched around an ax of ideological warfare. Rather it is the good news of the world's redemption. The law ended the injustice of slavery. The Pharisees were condemned for battering hearts with the law. Christ changed hearts by clothing the law in grace.