A Culture in Crisis Needs a Different Kind of Courage |
Every generation faces its own moral drift, but the one we’re living through carries a special kind of disorientation. Ideas that once anchored families, churches, and institutions now feel negotiable. Moral lines that were clear for centuries are described as “evolving.” And in the absence of clarity, noise fills the void.
Public debate has been replaced by performance. The loudest people are often the angriest, and the quietest are often the most fearful. And in that confusion, a question keeps surfacing among believers: How do you stand for what is true without becoming the very thing you’re resisting?
Many Christians try to meet cultural chaos with equal force. The assumption is that if the world is getting louder, we must get louder too. But yelling is not courage. Belligerence is not boldness. And hostility, no matter how righteous it feels in the moment, is not one of the fruits of the Spirit.
Real courage has never depended on volume. It rests on conviction that comes from a deeper place than public approval.
History is full of people who made a difference, not because they were aggressive but because they were steady. They stood........