Donald Trump won the 2024 election for president.

But that doesn’t mean things are all right, and that we can collectively go back to sleep. Consider these issues:

• Abortion is still being promoted as a good thing, even as a constitutional right.

• Instead of citizenship, “anti-racism” and revolution are being taught in Illinois public schools.

• “Global warming” is being used to scare us into accepting socialism. Klaus Schwab, leader of the World Economic Forum, said this about the COVID crisis:

“To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

If we heed this call we all become government slaves.

• We’re being pushed to save the world from global warming through abolishing farming. We’re told to eat bugs instead.

• We’re informed that America has a “post-Christian” society, and that nothing can be done to regain widespread acceptance of Christian values.

Perhaps I can advise on that last issue. My article declares:

1.) Winning or losing elections isn’t decisive. Rather, change the culture and election results will follow.

2.) We’re not in a post-Christian culture. America still likes being a Christian society.

3.) Remove Christianity from our culture and you’re left with an ugly, “every man for himself” society.

4.) America seems ambivalent about its existing culture because its Christians haven’t been serious about fulfilling the Great Commission.

Elections don’t change culture, it’s the other way around

Because Trump won, maybe American Christians have a little more time to get their act together and repent. But a Harris victory wouldn’t have significantly changed the contents of this article. That’s because we vote according to our beliefs, and elections don’t make us change what we believe.

For example, did your state pass a referendum where having an abortion became a state constitutional right? If so, have the pro-life people given up their cause? Of course they haven’t. And they’re busy figuring how to reverse that referendum.

That referendum passed because the state’s culture already had a strong pro-abortion sentiment, and it showed itself in the election results. This illustrates what the late Andrew Breitbart said, that “politics is downstream of culture.”

When your cause wins, your get to use government to reinforce your victory. This shows the importance of winning now. But you can’t win in the first place unless a large part of the culture already supports your cause.

Part of American culture is to vote for politicians and causes you care about. But are Christians motivated enough to actually bother voting? Are we willing to act to support and defend our beliefs in society? Or do we think that religion and politics shouldn’t mix?

Having a Christian culture makes all the difference

America has always had a culture based on Christianity. Our colonists brought with them the English common law, itself an expression of Bible themes of law and justice. Their contemporaries recognized that America was a Christian nation.

“Social justice” activists assert that American culture is “inescapably racist” and must be overthrown. In its place we’ll have … something. They give few specifics, but promise that it will be really good. Suppose that we fully buy into a true “post-Christian” culture. How would losing the Christianity from our culture change things?

Note that you can’t remove Christianity from society unless Christians are no longer serious about their beliefs. But if that occurs, Christian religion would be something we do only on Sunday mornings. We’d give only “lip service” about morality (Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 23:1-2). And you’d hear things like “I’m personally opposed to abortion, but I wouldn’t want to force my religion into my law making.”

A society where Christianity is irrelevant looks much like this:

• Dishonesty and lying becomes pronounced and accepted. If you’re abandoning Christian values, why still be honest and truthful? Along with this attitude comes massive amounts of fraud and counterfeiting. So what if others are hurt by my actions, what’s that to me?

• Bribery becomes accepted practice because “everyone else is doing it.” Officials will show favoritism for a price, and actual justice will be hard to get. Some leader could try to use force to enforce honesty, but why should his enforcers themselves be honest?

• In a society that doesn’t fear God’s judgment (Proverbs 1:7) there is no compelling reason for cultivating good virtues. Why not rob, or rape, as long as you don’t get punished? Little bribes here and there will fix things up.

• In such a dishonest society there is no justice. So why not get your own vengeance, settling scores through vendettas? Welcome to the practice of “an eye for an eye.”

• Morality is whatever the government needs it to be. But be assured, Christianity will remain “public enemy #1.” Belief in God, in His absolute standards of right and wrong, remains the true danger to this godless society.

We’d have a selfish, vengeful society. We’ll trust only our closest family. Everything will fall apart around us because we won’t respect other peoples’ property. And everyone will do “what is right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25).

Television shows and movies like Star Trek present a bright future where people are honest and kind, wars are a thing of the past, and nobody cares about religion. But this propaganda assumes that people are naturally honest, kind, etc.

We forget that values and morals must be constantly hammered into us through sermons, and through what our parents teach us. Without the fear of God a society never attains these biblical virtues, or loses the virtues it may have had.

When activists encourage us to abandon our Christian culture, we’re being invited to throw over our entire lives in the name of some ill-defined slogans. In doing so we’re rejecting God’s grace, and dismissing the virtues the Bible teaches us. Like immature children, these activists don’t understand the damage of their plans (Hosea 4:6).

Christian consensus comes through constant evangelism

Before He ascended into heaven, Jesus gave His believers a particular job:

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)

Considering all of these new disciples you get through active evangelism, you don’t need force, power politics, or monkey business to get laws favoring the Christian point of view. You get these laws naturally, by popular demand:

• The church, making disciples, grows in numbers.

• This increases the Christian influence in society.

• Increasing influence results in a growing consensus favoring Christian values and morals.

• Society comes to demand laws that promote Christian virtues.

Jesus likens his kingdom to yeast being worked through bread dough (Luke 13:20-21). A baker doesn’t leaven just a part of the dough and then stop. All of the dough gets leavened. Likewise, the kingdom of God is to influence every part of society.

Insisting on multi-culturalism, or claiming that “diversity is our strength,” means denying that “every knee will bow” to God (Philippians 2:9-11). It asserts that we have power to wall off God from parts of own His creation (Psalm 2). It claims the right to decide for ourselves what is right and wrong (Genesis 3:1-7). Let’s not repeat the sin of Adam. God is God and we are not.

If society doesn’t have a Christian consensus, as what happens when we become tired of evangelism, then other groups in society will have less opposition to their beliefs, and they’ll gain laws matching their increasing influence.

As I’ve previously noted, Christianity is always one generation from extinction.

A Christian society must maintain itself through continual evangelism.

Until Jesus comes again, we must faithfully do that chore.

This article was originally posted at the Fix This Culture blog.