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Friday, 24 April 2009 15:16

QUOTE: "We are going to discover that cultural Christianity is what eventually disappears in a secularized age. Cultural Christianity has been so much a part of the environment of our ministry and of the expectation of our churches that it's going to be a very different situation for the pastor of the First Baptist Church to worry about being arrested rather than to worry about whether he's going to get the first seat in the restaurant. ... When you start looking at a lot of the logic of what is becoming endemic in the culture toward the future, we're going to be in a very different situation than we've ever faced before. And we're going to discover that we are not as many as we thought we were. ... We've got to prepare students to be ready for that and to be able to lead churches to be able to understand what it means to be the church when we no longer have the cultural supports that we had counted on, wrongly, I think, all these years." —Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler Jr. [Baptist Press, 4/23/09]