The modern world, no less than that of several centuries ago, has seen major mistakes made in the name of the gospel. Very often, when Christian people have set out to “make the world a better place,” they have sadly left the world a worse place instead. Their tangled motives and flawed schemes have become simply another variation on the world’s normal power games. This should not put us off. A world full of people who read and pray the Sermon on the Mount, or even a world with only a few such people in it, will always be a better place than a world without such people.
