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Still a Large Minority

Os Guinness, Renaissance

Guinness notes “a striking symptom of the church’s problems in the West”: in a country such as the United States, “Christians are still a large percentage of the population yet often exercise surprisingly little formative influence on the culture.” Size alone is not the same as salt and light.

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Numerical presence without cultural influence is a symptom worth examining.

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