We return with Dr. Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission filling

in this week for John Piper.

Dr. Moore as American culture continues changing and we see massive ethical shifts taking

place and as our culture secularizes and as the church becomes increasingly marginalized

in culture and even as persecution seems less and less of a distant possibility.

What is the church to do in response?

As American culture starts to change even more than it already has, it starts to secularize.

I think the first thing that we're going to have to do is to get rid of our dime store

prosperity gospel.

I think it's really easy for those of us in this wing of evangelicalism to think that

prosperity gospel is only something that happens kind of out there in the Joel Osteen,

TBN, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland wing of American religious life.

But a prosperity gospel often exists in our own hearts and in our own churches, anytime

that there's the idea that somehow the gospel is going to get me in this life what it is

that I want.

I think it's been really easy to think that and to believe that in American culture because

it's helpful in terms of the majority culture to be identified as a Christian at least to

a certain extent.

Being a Christian meant that you weren't a communist in the Cold War era.

You're standing against godless atheistic communism and it meant even beyond that that you

are a regular American, part of American life.

It's starting to change which means that it's going to be more and more costly for people

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