How can we offer the gospel to
secular people who are less and less nostalgic, less and less inclined to take seriously traditional religious claims?
Don't waste any more time on other sites that promise you Christian singles, but have so many
secular people in their system that you can't tell which is which.
What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and
secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?
The reason is
because secular people form their morality based on thought, and reason, and consensus, and based upon principles such as human rights.
But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations
of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.
Actually, although there are many more Nominals, they are actually shrinking and, in many cases, becoming
just secular people, without even a nominal attachment to Christianity.
This perspective demands creative dialogue with contemporary culture,
with secular persons stuck in the materialism of this world.
The history of
many secular people is far less bloodstained than their christian counter parts.
While the modern
secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.
Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings
thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
His book How to
Reach Secular People is good, as is James Emery White's book called The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated.
In today's world, the church needs to use other means to
get secular people's attention, and, although I don't particularly agree with this method, I applaud this church and this pastor for trying.
There are a lot of holy people that
secular people think are mad, and religious people think are observant.
Similarly, religious people volunteer an average of 12 times per year,
while secular people volunteer an average of 5.8 times.
Don't be fooled by other dating sites that masquerade as a Christian company, when they are
actually secular people hiding that they aren't Christians.
You can't find this in almost all other dating websites, as they're
usually secular people pretending to be Christians (or not letting on that they're not).
So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and
secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.
We have had great sites like Match for years and whilst they are great
for secular people, not so are the reports coming from Christians.
Don't be fooled by other sites that masquerade as Christian owned, but are owned
by secular people and companies, who don't share your Christians beliefs.
Paradoxically, this process frustrates the spiritual desires of many
modern secular people, who are unsatisfied with thin consumerism and wish to participate in something greater than themselves.
I'm a
very secular person and I don't really subscribe to any religion, but I think in doing this, she reveals herself as the stuck - up, conceited, and holier - than - thou person she truly is.
Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was
secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.