First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 1 Timothy 1.1, 2

We will only be putting band-aids on an open, oozing sore, if all we ever do is augur for decisions from legislatures and courts that reflect our understanding of truth applied to the public square. Yes, of course, we must struggle in this arena continually.

But the great challenge facing us today is the challenge of which foundation shall support our nation’s policies in the years to come. Apologists for a secular worldview are busily at work, reconstructing every aspect of life in our society on a foundation other than that which our forebears laid, a foundation which, increasingly, is not friendly to the institutions and freedoms of the Gospel.

While we still have freedom to proclaim the Gospel and to argue – winsomely and respectfully – for the Biblical view of truth, we must prepare ourselves and encourage one another to take up this task day by day, through every open door of opportunity, with a view to exposing the folly of unbelief and demonstrating the firmness of a Biblical approach to truth.

For a good society must be a truthful society, or it will be no society worth living in at all.

T. M. Moore

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