The government is not the answer to the problems within our society (e.g., lack of fresh water/food, homelessness, education disparities, economic woes, civil rights). The answer to these problems are the People that make up society. Its the "People of the United States" that makes us great, not the government (and for those that haven't figured it out yet - we live in a representative republic, NOT a democracy).
Society and culture is never going to be changed as a result of laws passed - you can't legislate morality. In order for a change to take place within a culture / society, there has to be a heart transformation of the people. The basis of the heart transformation must come from the local church. Not the church that focuses on the hot-button issues of politics (church and national), but the church whose focus is beyond their walls, creating and strengthening authentic relationships among its community (both inside and outside its walls).
Rick Warren thinks it is time for a Second Reformation within the Church.
He wants to promote personal responsibility and restore civility in American culture."I just think we're becoming too rude," he said. "You have no right to demonize someone just because you disagree with them."
Changing the culture, he said, is not done only through politics but also through things like art, music and sports.
"Outside the Beltway politics is just not that important. No kid in America has a poster of a politician on their wall," he said.
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