It's Thursday, May 25, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

As we think about the impact of the moral revolution, particularly upon Christians of conviction,

we often think in individual terms, and there are many individual consequences, many individual

dimensions of this issue.

How do you operate as an employee within a company, as a partner within a law firm?

How do you operate as a student on a campus?

How do you operate as an employer or an employee?

All of those are questions that can come right down to individual lives.

But we also need to recognize that the challenge presented to us by the moral revolution is

institutional as well as individual.

Now Christians understand this primarily because the most important institution on planet

earth is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then the creation order institutions, He has given us, including marriage and the family.

But by institutions, in the formal sense, I'm using the term, I mean institutions like

schools and foundations and corporations, you look at institutions, most particularly

colleges and universities, big philanthropic organizations, and for that matter, your

local neighborhood association.

All of them are one way or another, voluntary associations, and eventually many of them

become institutions.

Now here's something just to remember in terms of the history of Western civilization.

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