The Christian who cried Wolf

I recently saw this video.

A thought immediately came into mind: “The Christian who cried wolf.” 

I spend a lot of my time—especially around law school in Boston—around people who are simply not religious.  As much as we don’t like to face it, Church attendance is shrinking, not growing, and we have to learn to function in a society that is becoming less Christian.

It’s difficult to be taken seriously, in a society of growing skepticism, when one uses arguments for public policy whose past invocations include anti-semitism, slavery, and the crusades.

It’s difficult to taken seriously, in a society of growing skepticism, while constantly decrying the “spirit of this age,” and a generation later frantically back-pedaling attempting to show how the Church’s morality is actually “up-to-date."

It’s difficult to be taken seriously, in any society, while constantly crying wolf.

I hope we can begin to get past the thought that the amazing thing about Christianity is its timelessness—how, no matter the historical context, Christians never have to question as new events unfold and new knowledge is revealed.    

I hope we can show the world that the amazing thing about Christianity is its timelessness—not in the sense of willful blindness, but in the sense that it brings a wisdom collected throughout over 2,000 years of a very human history to provide a new challenge in every age.