Other than dependence on prayer, which is too much neglected, and on spiritual and moral renewal, which is indispensable, a favorable future for the American republic rests on persuasion much more than on confrontation, ultimatum, and imposition…
We Christians have no intention of forcing upon the nation our treasured Judeo-Christian heritage that so dramatically lifted from paganism both the West and the lands beyond…
We shall indeed defend the legal rights and religious freedom of theists, nontheists, and atheists. Through discreet proclamation we shall also seek to evangelize them in the interest of transcendent truth and the gospel by offering valid reasons for the Christian hope. As adherents of voluntary religion, we shall continue to bear our eager witness in society, extending the confidence of the Republic’s founders in the Creator’s endowment of all human beings with inalienable rights. We invite all humanity to Christ the Light of the world and earnestly share the Scriptures that speak of Him. Above all, we propose to live in a way that exhibits the life-changing dynamic and the moral power of revealed religion…
We shall not rely on half-truths but aim to speak and act in a genuinely Christian way. We shall not use this world’s methods, and thereby compound the wrongs, by returning evil for evil…
In the pulbic arena we shall seek to persuade our contemporaries of the superiority of the high moral road and of the costly consequences of ethical relativity.
Carl F. H. Henry, “The Struggle for America’s Soul,” in Gods of this Age or… God of the Ages?, edited by R. Albert Mohler, 26, 27, 28.