As the great dechurching continues and Christian institutions fail and falter, those of us who remain and desire to see Christianity flourish will need to build new institutions to advance this work and carry it on after we are gone. Unfortunately, during times of fear and turmoil, it is very easy for us to build institutions founded on vice rather than virtue. When this happens, we construct institutions like Cain or the people of Babel. Such cities have their origin in human vengeance (Gen 4:24; Nah 3:1).
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