‘Anything for a quiet life’ is a phrase which sums up much that is characteristic of contemporary attitudes and one which many of us quietly adhere to as Christians.
A 100 years ago, when the Marxist revolution was about to engulf Russia, Trotsky is said to have remarked that whoever longed for a quiet life had been born in the wrong generation. His comment certainly has resonance for us Christians today.
Last month we identified the danger of the church living in its own comfortably sealed environment, running its activities, developing its agendas and often vying internally for influence and power, but failing to make any effective impact on the secular culture.
