What’s the most important thing going on in our country these days? Many people would tell us that it is the campaign for president. Just as they have told us for all the previous elections, they are again telling us that this election is vitally important (I guess because it is the current election, thus rendering future and past elections of less significance).

On Sunday’s White Horse Inn broadcast — Covenant Confusion, Michael Horton made the following statement.

Listen to Peter Berger when he says — not even an Evangelical believer — but he, Peter Berger, Sociologist at Boston University says, “You guys don’t forget this, you preachers out there, he says, don’t forget this. The most important question in any period is whether the gospel is being preached.”

You know, we think that the crisis of Western Civilization is the most important crisis. It pales in significance to the question as to whether your pastor next Sunday is going to give you the bread of life or a stone.

Right now, the presidential election seems to dominate everything. It seems like the campaigning will never stop. Every day there is a new issue, and people are telling us how important this election is going to be for the future of our country and of the world. One side tells us that we need to reclaim our country and the other warns of the dire consequences if we change horses in mid stream. If the predictions are correct, chaos and calamity await us no matter what decision we as a nation make.

But all that pales in significance to the question: Do you sit under the faithful preaching of the gospel every Sunday? That is where the really important work is taking place. The preaching of the gospel is the most important thing going on in our country these days.