Paul warned about principalities and powers.

Faithfulness requires that Christians understand what are the roles going on around us.

I don't think you can be a faithful Christian and have no opinion on the abortion question.

I don't think you can be a faithful Christian and have no clue what society's laws should be concerning marriage.

Dr. Albert Moller is the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

In addition to his presidential duties, he's also a professor of Christian theology and hosts two

programs, the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview,

and thinking in public, a series of conversations with the day's leading thinkers.

Dr. Molo, thanks for joining me on Takeaways.

Kirk, it's a great honor to be with you.

Thank you.

Dr. Moller, you have a new book that is called The Gathering Storms. What exactly is this storm that you are forecasting?

Well, it's a massive change and shift in the culture, not just over-selected issues, but at the basic level of the tectonic plates of the surface.

I need to tell you, Kirk, that is not an original title. I stole that title, honestly, from one of my great heroes,

who is Winston Churchill. And I've drawn strength from the example of Winston Churchill my entire life,

going back to the time I was about 13 years old. You walk into my study, you're going to see

oil portraits of several people, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, but you're also going to see oil portraits of several people, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield,

but you're also going to see Winston Churchill. Churchill's six volumes of the Second World War,

the first volume, was about the fact that Europe would not see the threat that Hitler represented.

And so that was entitled to Gathering Storm.

Churchill's great point was that all the political and cultural leaders of Europe lived in denial

about the basic threat that was swirling all about them. I think Christians are in danger

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