When the behaviors and beliefs of Christians mirror those of their unbelieving neighbors, it is evidence that the Church is a product of the culture it is called to transform, and that instead of producing disciples, it has been turning out “belonging nonbelievers,” if not “functional atheists.”
So, if you want find fault for the recent Court ruling, look no further than the doorstep of the Church and a decades-long ethos of non-discipleship Christianity. The thing is, the solution to our national condition starts at the same threshold.
The Church of England and TEC are at the state the Communion was in when William Wilberforce came on the scene and for pretty much the same reason – failure to instruct and train in the Faith handed down.
A modern day Wilberforce has yet to rise up. I pray it doesn’t take 50 years to turn the Church around as it did then.