But the point is that every time the Scriptures are taught clearly and the gospel is stated honestly, it is always going to run into whatever the prevailing agreement is in any place, whether it's the community of intellectuals, the community of commerce, or the community of the religious. Let me offer one further observation we might use as application. It is a great foolishness, it seems to me, to challenge worldliness by offering an alternative worldliness. We don't want your people elected to office, we want our people elected to office, so that we can use the media to our ends. Managing death and covering guilt, even done with Christian language, is not the gospel.
Worldliness is inherently competitive.
In order for you to have life, I must lose something. In order for you to be made secure, I must be made more insecure. In order for me to gain what I want, I must take from you. There isn't enough life, we're all dying. The King to whom we are testifying is giving away life.