Education and Governance
Vodie Baucham makes an interesting observation. For those who embrace the modern scientific worldview (call it secular humanism or what you will) there are two answers to social ills. Either people are ill-educated (and therefore need to be educated) or they are ill-governed and need to be more closely monitored.
The Christian gospel announces that what we need is a new heart, not new information or external control. Yet simply noting that these are the answers of the prevailing worldview is helpful for us (at least for me) as I see myself easily slipping into the same answers rather than clinging to the authentic gospel.
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2 comments:
thanks for sharing that insight, graham. i, too, find it easy, particularly in terms of the ill-educated bit. people are, in fact, so badly educated, and it is easy to unintentioanlly ascribe to education the transforming powers of only god himself.
on the otherhand, i have met many genuinely professing christians that are homeless, that don't know how to manage their resources ...
Your point is well-taken. Education and governance are important, even though they are not the sum of the answer. (I am an educator, and not an anarchist!)
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