How to live for God in a secular age

Most Christians say the culture around us is becoming more and more hostile to our faith. What should we do in response? 

It has long been the case that the Church disagrees with the world outside it. In the West today, the conflict is typically focused on issues of sexuality, gender and abortion. In recent months, people have been arrested for praying outside abortion clinics; others have been sacked from their jobs for articulating Christian views on sexual ethics, or say their bank accounts have been cancelled because of their beliefs. 

It’s clear that Christians are feeling the pressure. The recent ‘Future of the Church’ survey by Premier found that a whopping 89 per cent of respondents agreed that “increasingly government legislation and regulation is threatening freedom of thought, speech, conscience and religion”. It seems the Church broadly agrees that our beliefs are under threat, but what should we do about it?