[Gamecock]

I was asked a question on how the church can stay relevant in the context of gay marriage being legal in the two states of the USA where we have campuses. My answer was simply an admission of reality—no more and no less. I explained that this struggle for relevance was vexing as we did not want to become ostracized by a world that needs Christ.

Seems to me that question has been asked before and answered for us:

2 Tim 4 1. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

[avenir]

Paul’s letters to Timothy—“...my true child in the faith”—are simply brilliant.

[CynicalBear]

>>I explained that this struggle for relevance was vexing as we did not want to become ostracized by a world that needs Christ.<<

The need to be loved by the world is strong with some.