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Christ vs Society

A Sonlight Writing Assignment

By: Branson Horn

The older I get, the more and more I see of the differences between secular society and the Bible’s idea of a Christian society. However, the older I get, the more I start to see a muddling of Christian and secular societies. This saddens me. Many of the people that came to the new world, especially the pilgrims, came to escape the mixing of their Christian morals and secular morals. I find it ironic, then, that a country that was founded as a haven for religion has become so perverted by secularism.

Throughout history, Christians have struggled in the society they belong to. Even during Jesus’ time, Christians struggled to maintain their morals in a society that didn’t always support or reflect them. In the ancient church, when Christianity became somewhat of a fad, those who genuinely sought to live a true Christian life struggled against the waves of false teachers and prophets, as well as influences from other religions seeping ever so slowly into the moral fibers of the churches. Of course, little needs to be said about the suffering of the early church under the merciless Roman Empire, whose social, political, and moral corruption was in sharp contrast to that of Christianity’s.

The struggle continued in the Reformation, when those who sought to form another church, apart from the corrupt and bloated Roman Catholic church, were persecuted for their ideas and different theologies. This didn’t stop them however, the Protests fought with words and the sword and finally gained the freedom that they desired. However, the corruption didn’t end for the church when the Protestants rose. Because humans are innately sinful and corrupted from birth, the church can never be devoid of sin. Humans, who make up the church, constantly gravitate towards the world as if pulled by a magnet. Until Christ returns again there will never be a church completely set apart from the world. However, we, as Christians can do our best to stay apart from the sin of the world and not let it penetrate our values. Although we shouldn’t cloister ourselves away, we should separate our hearts from the things of this world, and look forward to those things that will come.