The Way Things Are

I have begun to read a very intriguing book by Dale Rosenberger, the senior pastor at the First Congregational Church (UCC) in Ridgefield, Connecticut, entitled, Who Are You to Say? He challenges the church to live courageously and with integrity in a world that is no longer hospitable to Christianity. He writes,

The Christiandom era of the Christian faith monitoring America's common life, or being the officially sanctioned spiritual shaper of society, is past...A new era is upon us. And we haven't quite yet figured out what that would look like, or what posture God would have us assume given such profound shifts in the landscape. What lies ahead might well be more like what the church faced in its first three hundred years than in the more than 1,600 that followed. What are the new options for the church in our acidly modern and encroachingly secular society? Where can we find social leverage and lift from above in our witness to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a new epoch?

He asks some good questions, I think. How do you respond to these questions? What do you say?