Today’s guest post comes to us from Joseph Hartropp for ChristianityToday.com.
Christians today sometimes think about attacks on religion coming from ‘godless secularism’ or ‘post-enlightenment thinking’ but a brief survey of the Church in its early life show that it has always been under attack, and often for similar reasons and in similar ways to what we’re familiar with today.
It’s a helpful reminder that even if the Church is under attack, that isn’t an excuse to indulge in anti-intellectualism or avoid positive dialogue with the society of which we’re a part. People always fear what they don’t understand, and so a lot of the antagonism that the Church faced and faces may simply stem from the fact that people don’t yet understand it.
The Church was known for devotion to a crucified Messiah, and denial of the ‘gods’ of the day, which is actually quite encouraging. Is that what the Church is known for today, or do we minimize our devotion, and practically worship the contemporary idols of money, sex and power?
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