Dr. John, last time you talked about the changes you have watched develop in the racial landscape

in America over the last 50 years since you were a boy in South Carolina.

Do you have any predictions or longings as you look into the future?

Well, I don't have as many predictions as I do longings, but let me make a go of it.

When it comes to ethnic diversity, we should never forget one massive certainty.

This gospel of the kingdom will be preached through all the world as a testimony to all

the ethnicities, and then the end will come.

Like reality should be thought of globally, not just in narrow, local ways alone.

And this certainly is true about the Great Commission and the certainty of the success

of the Great Commission is there because Jesus bought it with His blood according to Revelation

5.9.

You were slain and you bought people from every tribe and tongue.

So that's going to happen.

That's the first thing I think we should say about the future.

All the ethnicities are going to bow the knee to Jesus someday.

Number two, I see the continual unraveling of the historic traditional overlay of biblical

morality in America.

For years, there was an external conformity with significant biblical convictions left

over from Christian influence in this country.

This is collapsing, and we'll continue to do so, I think, so that true Christians who

submit to the authority of God's Word and the Bible will feel increasingly alien.

This collapse seems to me is being accompanied, however, by profound renewal and reformation

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