“Strictly speaking, there will never be a post-Christian era, because there will never be an era post-Christ.“ — Toby Sumpter
We live in a world where a man has risen from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father. We cannot undo that. We cannot rewind the movie. There is no such thing as a post-Christian anything because Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and He, being both Lord and Savior, does not change (Heb. 13:8, Mal 3:6).
“The sun has risen. Christ has come. He is the king. The light covers the world. A return to heathen midnight is an impossibility. Those who walk in darkness now are doing so in a world suffused with light. This is hard to do — you have to remain blind, or hide in root cellars. There are ways to stay out of the sunlight, but they are difficult to accomplish. Not only so, but as the day passes, they will get increasingly difficult.” — Douglas Wilson, God Rest Ye Merry
As everything becomes more like itself, the light grows brighter and the darkness gets darker. This requires a great deal of creativity and increasingly so as the light floods the world. What it amounts to is finding the deepest, darkest corners and crevices of existence to retreat to in order to avoid the warm glow of encroaching godliness.
“Men have spoken too soon in claiming that the world has now entered a post-Christian era and we have been fools to believe them.” — Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope
Those cowering in the corners have tried to convince Christianity that their mere presence, even if it is diminishing, spells certain doom for the kingdom of God and too many Christians have taken their threats seriously. They have allowed themselves to be bullied by the scum circling the drain. But anyone with eyes in their head knows it is just a matter of time. The swirl will sink down until it is no more.
In the meantime, the greater the diameter of light, the greater the circumference of darkness. The touch points are increasing to be sure, but their surface area is retreating in the process. The corners of the box are congregating with the worst this world has to offer, but they have painted themselves into those corners. The only way out is to come into the light and confess their sins or to hunker down and be dispelled by the light of the world shining upon where they used to haunt.
John 1:4-5 (ESV)
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
The darkness is making its last stand. It will either be consumed by Christ or it will fall at His feet in repentance, but either way, that kind of thing will not stand in the kingdom of God.
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