The Challenge of Child Communion, November 24, 2025.

Introduction.

When Christian writers and speakers use the word challenge, it frequently refers to what they're about to do, which is to issue a mildly robust exhortation to do a little better. The audience is challenged to step it up a bit, to take it up to the next level, perhaps, to resolve to be more earnest than whatever the endeavor in question was. But there's another way the word challenge can be used, as when someone is slapped in the face with a pair of gloves, thereby inviting him to show up in an agreed-upon place at dawn and to bring his pistol with him.

I will leave it to the interested reader to decide which kind this one is.

The stakes. The sexual revolution is approaching its zenith, which, when you turn the chart

right side up, turns out to be its nadir. But wherever you look along the line on the graph,

you can see a certain grim commonality which the scriptures describe by using the word fruitless. Trees whose fruit withereth,

without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Jude 12. Hookup culture, fruitless.

Divorce culture, fruitless. Abortion culture, fruitless. Lesbianism, fruitless. Sodomy, fruitless, sodomy, fruitless, tranny culture,

fruitless. The secular vision of the good life is, by this point, a dried-out stick on the ground.

This being the case, and because the revolutionaries still need to perpetuate their cause in the

world, instead of bearing fruit, a gift they have abandoned, they must therefore recruit.

This is how evangelical Christians have

allowed themselves to be turned into the breeder farms of the left. We make the babies and then

turn them over to train professionals in order that the revolution can shape most of them

in accordance with the approved governmental standards of indoctrination and grooming. But for the most

part, these Christian children are today turned over

voluntarily and not the way they used to be kidnapped by the Janissaries. In the meantime, the leadership

class of American evangelicals, instead of teaching their people how to think Christianly, which would

mean learning how to object to this kind of thing, have rather been smearing them with the rancid

butter of go-along get-along. The result is that Winsome Christianity has actually become won over Christianity. At the end of the day, it turns out that teaching Christians to be winsome was like teaching hookers how to say things like, hello, sailor. So this means that the task before us, the challenge, if you will, is to figure out how the church can keep her kids in the

faith once delivered. The proposal that I would like to advance here may strike some as a tad

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