“The Church cannot be salt and light in a crumbling culture if we cave into the sexual revolution and if we fail to provide a counter culture witness,” warned Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church at this week’s Humanum conference. The interreligious, international conference sponsored by The Vatican brought together over 30 religious leaders and scholars to reinvigorate marriage and family life by sharing wisdom from their various traditions. Notable speakers included Pope Francis, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, The Rt. Rev. NT Wright, Dr. Russell Moore, and Archbishop Charles Chaput.
Although some Christians are yielding to the sexual revolution, Warren emphasized the temporal nature of all revolutions, trends, and cultures. “The only way to always be relevant is to be eternal,” he said. Further, “the debate over the definition of life and of sex and of marriage is in reality a question of leadership,” and the Church must lead rather than follow, Warren explained.
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