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All in Culture
It may perhaps surprise the church that its freedom lies in its commission. A slave to none as the slave to all.
A separation of church and state is here proclaimed. But there is no call for a separation of religion and government. The Word of God speaks in Lordship over both.
Christians often approach the topic in a brash reactive way in response to the gender twisting they see around them. Lewis approach seems much less brass yet no less clear.
All to often we treat salvation as some kind of substance that we are trying to get a hold of. The story of the Bible, as Chilton and Van Til highlight, speaks of salvation as a state of being. Moreover, salvation is a state of being that will be as expansive as the pervasiveness of sin.
We are not to lose hope because we are not to lose faith, and faith is the assurance of those things we are hoping for, the renewal of all things in Christ.