Leaders of existing churches often try to lead change by turning the direction of the whole church in one fell swoop. Church planters want to do the same thing, only on a smaller scale.
For many reading Dreher, there is no good news in The Benedict Option. Christians have lost the culture war in North America. The ways Christians in America have tried to change the culture has backfired. Indeed, even the church has been compromised. Christians are in a heap of trouble in the West.
I suggest instead we must disrupt the ways 'white privilege' works. Let us defy the way it works. Let us quit playing this game, and in the face of the current struggle, proclaim all the more concretely that "Jesus is Lord."
