Can we be persuasive again? 

     Part 3 of 3 with Os Guinness 

Where are evangelicals today?

     "Part of evangelicalism has been politicized. The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing. It's Rousseau and the left that tried to make everything political. Evangelicals are now seen as purely political. 

     "But we are the people of the good news - the best news ever. We've got to explore the greatness of that good news and not tie it down just to politics. Politics is important, but not more than it should be. 

You would say politics is a thing?

     "Yes, it's incredibly important. But you've got to get churches, families and schools right first - that's where freedom is won and preserved. Then you'll have a healthy politics. 

What about states still allowing abortion?

     "Abolition took nearly 50 years of intense prayer, apologetics and political action...persuasion. And then they passed a law that enshrined it. Christians had the numbers, so they rammed it through. It was disastrous. No persuasion, only legislation. 

     We've got to do the persuading. We're increasingly in a culture of death. We've got to make arguments for the sanctity of life."

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