Configuring All Things to Christ - By Regis Martin

Christianity is mere personal piety if it does not penetrate into every aspect of our public life—the culture at large—and we must insist on bringing it there.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/no_author/configuring-all-things-to-christ/ 

.....So, what then is Christian Culture? It is what happens when enough men and women wedded to Christ, spousal recipients of His love, undertake in a decisive and public way to profess their common faith and devotion by soaking everything in the grace of the Gospel. All that they are and know and do—including their institutions, civil arrangements, arts, education, family life, work and play—immersed in the Blood of the Lamb.....

..... Let me put it this way. In order for the life of faith to succeed in a more than haphazard or private way, it really has got to penetrate the public life, which is that larger space where culture puts down its roots. Otherwise, the generality of men may find it well-nigh impossible, amid so many secular and profane distractions, to find genuine and palpable evidence of the sacred.

Not the least rumor of God could survive in a world where no one ever spoke of God. And the reason they don’t is because—educated opinion having convinced men of His irrelevance—they no longer turn to Him for counsel or consolation. Not to mention those primordial reasons men have lifted their eyes on high, to give praise and adoration to the God who made them and the universe.

We have lost, as a dear friend and mentor used to say, “the poetry of the transcendent.” And when a people live in a world made suddenly flat as a map, they no longer look up at the stars.

This is not what the architects of Christian Culture had in mind when they sought to configure all things to Christ. They did not aim to leave anything out of account, free to shape itself without reference to Him. Why should we not build a society in such a way as to heighten and augment the natural tendency we have for the true and the good and the beautiful? To allow our natural gravitation for God, who remains the deepest longing of all, to be shored up by a society whose institutions conspire to draw all things to God? Isn’t that the most logical and obvious outcome of a society for whom most members are already Christian?