Restoring All Things

This week, John Stonestreet of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview and I talked about an upcoming conference that aims to inspire Christians out of despair they might feel over the state of the culture. Stonestreet said he and WORLD News Group’s Warren Cole Smith pushed for the event after meeting so many Christians who complained the culture is headed in the wrong direction.

“That reality has brought about a sense of despair among Christians,” Stonestreet said, “As if the status of marriage in America or international persecution or restricting religious liberty or all of those sorts of things somehow are changing the outcome of the Christian story.”

Though we are living in what Stonestreet calls a “negative cultural moment,” Christians should remember that it is not the final chapter.

“We needed to have a series to inspire Christians to embrace the ultimate kingdom vision, which is repeated over and over and over in the New Testament, that Christ is restoring all things to himself and that he invites Christians to be a part of it,” Stonestreet said.

The three-city conference, called Restoring All Things, starts in April and will convene in Grand Rapids, Mich., Atlanta, and Dallas. Restoring All Things is presented by WORLD News Group, the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, Focus on the Family, and Prison Fellowship. Stonestreet said the conference will emphasize stories of how Christians at a local level are helping to restore their communities in the gospel: “Be inspired by how God is using these people on the ground to restore all things to Himself, even in a culture in which we feel like we’re ‘losing.’”

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