Shortly after James Dobson retired, he gave a speech to the Focus on the Family staff that talked about how we have lost the battle of the culture war. Could the reason for the lack of progress in the “culture war" be that Jesus called the church to "go and make disciples", not go and try to change the culture?
Lots of attention, finances, time, and energy have been diverted into ministries that fight “the culture war” at the loss of the local church. The local church lives, breathes, and interacts within the immediate context of its community. If followers of Jesus would simply follow the command to pray, witness, and assemble together regularly for worship and instruction, instead of making millionaires out of parachurch celebrities, the church would effectively carry out God’s calling to make disciples, instead of fighting a “culture war” we were never called to fight.
