Kirk Cameron Explains Why Christians Can’t ‘Give Up On Culture’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor Kirk Cameron is explaining why Christians can’t give up on the culture just yet.
“I’m not waiting for someone or some divine event to exit us out of this world to escape the culture,” Cameron said as the release of his new book, Born to Be Brave: How to Be a Part of America’s Spiritual Comeback, approaches. “I want an opportunity to partner together with you and with my kids and with your kids and grandkids and as a family of faith to restore the culture, revive the principles that bring heaven to earth. So, please don’t give up on the culture. Give up on fear, give up on defeat, but don’t give up on the culture.”
Cameron went on to explain how Christians can help change the culture.
“I’m praying for culture to have a change of heart, and that’s what you and I ought to be doing when we look at the world around us,” he said. “There’s reasons for outrage every single day when we see what the destroyers of liberty and the haters of God are doing to our children and to our institutions and to our country and the school systems and everything else. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
“In fact, when what’s on the inside of the people of America — the values, the faith and the worldview is decidedly good and in line with the values of heaven — that eventually works its way out into our families, into our communities and into our culture,” he continued. “That’s how good cultures are born. People of faith who have courage and are brave to stand up for what they believe in, speak the truth in love and apply these principles not only in your personal life but also to your public life, that’s our task.”
Cameron’s new book, releasing on Oct. 8, promises to equip Christians to:
- stop thinking our opponents are too big for us to overcome and start seeing our culture as something we are called to mold.
- recognize the Christian backstory of America and see how this gives us direction for the future.
- understand that politics needs the gospel, because real change requires heart transformation.
- hold on to our God-given compassion for others, even when we face backlash and opposition.
- boldly engage friends, family, and the community with gospel truths that affect all of society.
“If we’re going to change the nation and the world, we need to move beyond paralyzed outrage and start acting with courage and confidence,” he told Fox News in July. “God is always on the move — and we can keep up with Him because He has given us the ability to do so. We were born to be brave.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Cameron’s hope for revival in America:
During a recent stop on his “See You at the Library” book tour, actor Kirk Cameron encouraged Christians to fight for a great faith revival in our country, even as America slips further into moral decline.
“I want to communicate to people that now is the time to lean into your faith, to your courage, to your family and regain a vision of victory, not only a pie in the sky ‘let’s just get to heaven’ victory but a steak on the plate cultural victory in our lifetime,” Cameron said. “Many of us look around at our country and we have this sinking feeling that something is very, very wrong with the values that our kids are learning.”
“As a grandfather and as a father of six children, I care a lot about what we do in our generation because it will determine so much of what our children live with, the world that they’ll grow up in,” he added.
“I want to… write books and talk to people for as long as I can about turning their hearts toward God, turning their heart back toward their home, raising their children, not outsourcing their parenting to government institutions that have lesser goals and motives for those children than their own parents do,” Cameron continued.
