The Problem of Christianity

THE MODERN PROBLEM

1. Viewing what Christianity has endured indicates great inherent vitality. UB 195:4.4
2. Christianity now faces the gigantic struggle between the secular and the spiritual. UB 195:4.5 
3. Religion needs new leaders—men who will depend solely on the incomparable teachings of Jesus. UB 195:9.4
4. The hour is striking for the rediscovery of the original foundations of Christianity. UB 195:9.5
5. Christianity has become a social and cultural movement as well as a religion. UB 195:9.11
6. Christianity is handicapped because it sponsors a society which staggers under a tremendous overload of materialism. UB 195:10.20
7. Christianity is threatened by the doom of one of its own slogans: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” UB 195:10.11
8. But Christianity contains enough of the teachings of Jesus to immortalize it. UB 195:10.18
9. The hope of Christianity is that it shall learn anew the greatest of all truths — the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. UB 195:10.21