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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

It is a sign of our times that what was once shocking is becoming less so every day.

For example, a Scottish Teachers Union is promoting a play depicting Jesus Christ as transgender

in celebration of Pride Month. The Gospel, according to Jesus' Queen of Heaven, has evoked protests wherever it

has been performed, but supporters insist on going forward. We have come to expect assaults

in our faith from our fallen culture, but when the attacks come from within, they are especially

devastating. Recent reports alleging racism and misogyny among Southern Baptist leaders grieve me personally,

as I am the product of Baptist churches, universities, seminaries, and missionary organizations.

In recent days, I've been asking myself why the crisis of Christian leadership is so acute in our day.

Is it that our 24-7 news and social media platforms make it easier to report and read about

clergy abuse?

Is it that a hostile culture and media amplify every story of clergy failure to reinforce

their agenda for replacing Christianity with their

secular ideology. Undoubtedly, these are part of the answer, but I'm convinced that there's

a deeper story at work in our day, one that affects and can infect every Christian in our culture,

myself included. The claim that Jesus is Lord

stands at the heart of the Christian faith. If this claim is true, three results are clear.

We must align every dimension of our lives with biblical truth. The harder this is to do, the more urgently we

need to do it. We must proclaim and defend biblical morality. The more unpopular this morality

becomes, the more urgently it is needed. We must seek to win every person we can to Christ.

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