Subversive Christian Unity

Decline in Christianity's cultural significance shall make the papacy moot, rather like the titles of people with royal lineages but no influence in their countries, people who make cocktail parties interesting. As in my previous predictions: I do not offer this as prophecy. That would over-rate what I am saying, for I am speaking from my reading of history and current events, read perhaps through the lens of faith, but without any "Thus sayeth the LORD!" declamation attached to my conclusions, for indeed that would not be appropriate.  Godly prophecy is always accurate, but I might well be mistaken. The papacy's importance shall dwindle to insignificance. Decline in Christianity's cultural significance shall make the papacy moot, rather like the titles of people with royal lineages but no influence in their countries, people who make cocktail parties interesting. No doubt popes will be chosen in their turn for centuries to come, but it will be done by a R...

Trials and difficulties will come upon Western Christianity, all its denominations, as we lose our former status as the cultural religion. One need not be a prophet to see that; it is beginning already. The demise of many denominations is ahead. Those that compromise with a world that hates the gospel will of course fade into the oblivion of irrelevance. If your preaching adjusts to the times and the culture too much, you find you are saying nothing that people need to go into the church to hear, for your preaching is the same platitudinous pablum they can hear outside the church. True Christian believers of various denominational backgrounds will begin to see one another as more alike than different. Shared trials and difficulties tend to do that--to draw people together. Since our denominations have proven to have clay feet, we can step back from our history of strife and controversy to say that their disputes over theological minutiae did not profit any of them--for all alike ...