Tuesday 31 May 2011

CHURCH & SOCIETY

'It is a common assumption that, in order to survive, churches must accommodate to the age. But in fact, the opposite is true: In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. As a general principle, the higher a group's tension with mainstream society, the higher its growth rate.'
Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth, p.261.