Each day seems to bring with it new disturbing videos and reports of individuals and groups behaving badly – from ransacking a supermarket, to brazenly shoplifting from a drugstore, to sucker punching an innocent person on a subway station platform.
Violence is just one symptom of a sick society. Other signs include a disregard or downright hostility toward all things sacred, because of our selfishness, seeing children as burdens rather than blessings, the normalization of aberrant sexual behavior and a general disregard for civility and good manners.
So, what is the solution to this current scourge?
Being in the midst of a heated midterm election season, many of these issues are being discussed on the campaign trail, and understandably so. Policies and politicians do matter. They help set the tone and shape and pass legislation that impacts our everyday lives. Your vote this November matters. Don’t neglect or pass up the opportunity to participate.
But the societal collapse we’re currently finding our way through will not be solved at the polls or by politicians.
The only way to right our ship is by a return to biblical principles, especially a restoration of the nuclear family. Every problem is rooted in the dysfunction of the home. If we solve our problems at home and in our families, we will be properly addressing the fundamental source of culture’s sickness.
This is what my friend and pastor Dr. Tony Evans is getting at in his new book, Kingdom Politics: Returning God to Government. | 
