As gospel people, how should we live confi-dently in dark times? was the challenging question, addressed by Os Guinness at the November event in York run by the Yorkshire Gospel Partnership.
Os provided a rich feast of cultural analysis and challenge, rooted in in-depth biblical understanding. He noted that civilisation in the West was grounded on clear Christian values. Yet the church in the West has now capitulated to the modern and post-modern world. Needing to face up to its lethal distortion of faith, modernity tends to push us from integration to fragmentation.
What is lost is the lordship of Christ over everything. The movement has shifted from authority to preference, accompanied by a huge gap between belief and behaviour.
