Secularity, Political Christianity, and COVID-19: Sovereign Conditions for Gospel Movement

Since 2016, the detachment of the general population to evangelicalism has increased in both numbers and emotional ranker.

Three separate yet distinct streams appear to be converging into what could become the perfect, Kingdom conditions for a gospel movement. These streams are the shifting tide from secularism to secularity within North America, an increasing distaste for politicized religion, and an invisible bug that is proving to be more powerful than Wall Street, geo-political powers, or our fascination with ecclesiastical supremacy.

Lets briefly analyze these three streams individually.

The Rise of Secularity

The concept of being ‘secular’ has deep roots emerging from the ascent of rationalism, and secularity can be seen as the principal influence over the ensuing centuries of our shared history. Secularism, with the added ‘ism’, describes a belief system devoted to the creation of a society dedicated to a religious neutrality.

It refers to all public spaces being emptied of God.

Sociologists of the latter half of the 20th century predicted a day that would be free from the archaic constraints of religion, which would soon give rise to an almost universal atheism.

But the aspirations of secularism never transpired. Even the most ardent secularists failed to account for the stubborn persistence of faithful Christ-followers or for the influence of an immigrating diaspora clutching devotedly to their imported religious customs.

Instead, in its place, stood a new reality—secularity. As Charles Taylor explained, secularity is “...a society where belief in God is unchallenged and indeed, unproblematic, to one in which it is understood to be one option among others....”[1] Pluralism is now the competitive soil in which secularism must compete for followers.

And so, in secularity, we now find ourselves in a religious ...