In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

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Os Guinness was English author and social critic. Ian Oswald "Os" Guinness is an English author, theologian and social critic now based in Fairfax County, Virginia; he has lived in the United States since 1984. Read more on Wikipedia →

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