So often for Christians there is a sense of fighting against the current. Increasingly where we live Christians are marginalised and seen as the quirky periphery, those who don’t quite fit in. Immorality is now considered lifestyle, character is seen as formalism, and principle has become intolerance. And to bring up Christ and the gospel is quaint, old-fashioned and easily dismissed.

 And maybe that is why Christians are having such little impact today. We believe what the world is say...