We as Christians are to live by a higher law and to proclaim its importance even while many wish to live by a lower law, or even no law at all. We must not become like many who have ordered their lives by the vestiges of the higher law, yet refuse to share that higher path with those who need it most this will often require us to be against the world and its fashions, so as to be for the world and humanities needs in the deepest sense. The sense in which Christ spoke when he said we are to be the salt and light of the world.
One cultural and political commentator has said it well: “I don't like a lot of [modern] Christian thought and preaching — [and] my central problem with it is that it makes faith look easy, and happy, and pleasant, instead of difficult. It is a difficult road to a higher joy. In fact, what we conservatives and we Christians are proposing is hard. It's a harder life, and it's only a better life in a high sense, not necessarily in the low sense .”
- Based on ideas from The Call by Os Guinness
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