How can a community of believers maintain that strength if the truth is buried for the sake of power, if the Gospel plays second fiddle to money, and if appearances matter more than the spiritual condition of those coming through the door?
The darkness that Trump — and we — have cultivated seems to settle between and within each one of us. The only “good news” worthy of the name is from the work of a living God, and we can never afford to forget that.
What the world needs is a public witness to the truth that can pierce through our culture's self-centeredness and demonstrate to our neighbors (and ourselves) that another world is possible.