The Recovery of Christian Stewardship
The Christian Church in the West has in many ways lost its moorings. It will not make progress again until it repents and returns to the fundamentals of faith. Where can those fundamentals be found? In Scripture, of course. But there are also helpful doorways to Scripture available. The most useful of these are the universal creeds (Apostles, Nicene, Athanasian).
Many of the bulwarks of Western civilisation were built over time on these fundamentals of faith. But the Unbelief of the West, commencing with the Enlightenment and eventually running at breakneck pace until our days, has effectively destroyed the foundations of Christian culture. With the foundations gone, the superstructure cannot last. If we are to avoid the inevitable calamity falling upon us--which is the judgement of God upon the apostate West--Christians and churches must return to our fundamentals--to the "once-for-all-delivered-to-the-saints faith [Jude 3].
We also need to discern what is happening in our generation and come to some understanding about what must needs be done. It is well past the time when we could focus upon what "society" needs to do to reform and recapture the truths, conventions, and institutions of of Western Christendom which made the West so culturally potent. Rather, we need to focus upon ourselves, our families, and our Christian communities. We must also strive daily to conform our living (individual, familial, ecclesiastical, and communal) to the Scriptures and the fundamentals of faith revealed therein.
We Christians are now a remnant.
