My little warp-speed analysis of Christian and modern thought leaves us where we started -- in the present day, with a culture and with churches that lack an effective spiritual and moral compass, and which have an underlying belief that such a compass can never truly exist, except in our own imaginations.  But if we look at the floors beneath the rugs -- the foundational faith assumptions of our own world views -- we see that this need not be the case.  Another reasonable option exists, though it will not submit itself to people's shifting ideas about what is politically correct.  Though this can never be forced upon a society that does not want it, it is possible to intelligently return to biblical basics and the freedoms with stability they provided without ignoring genuine scientific advances.   It is true we will need to re-evaluate the particulars of many disciplines to determine which theories rest more on presuppositional ideology and which rest on observable, repeatable phenomena that do not require ideological eyeglasses so much.  For those areas that do require an ideological underpinning, a "two model approach" will serve us best, where the data can be examined according to both philosophical streams to see which can produce a more viable working theory.  Doubtless both can in some instances.
     It is not "anti-education" to insist that education proceed from a set of starting assumptions that do not automatically rule out, by faith, the relevance of a designer in a universe of function and design.  We must demand a true "free market place of ideas" in our universities and schools.  Secondly, we do not have to feel stupid for holding on to the time honored and absolute truths of the Bible.  Though our religious systems are considered obsolete, and our ideology is treated as irrelevant, the Bible, in terms of history, prophetic fulfillment and spiritual guidance, has more to say to us today than at any other time in human history!
     But if we are to even begin to communicate with the Post-Christian world, we must understand who it is we are communicating with, and consider whether or not they really understand the "Christianese Protestant Latin" vocabulary we often use.  There are many in the post-Christian world who consider biblical Christianity irrelevant not so much because they hear and understand our message but because we communicate with words that tell them we are no more than an isolated, anachronistic minority who can no longer relate to what the mainstream is going through.  And yet, to the degree we demonstrate a genuine Christ-like love for people, our numbers are swelled by millions of refugees from that mainstream -- refugees who think and define reality at first as post-Christian people.
     Spiritual regeneration in the New Testament sense of the term begins experientially where people really are, not on some esoteric "higher plane."  It is not until they begin to undergo this renewing of their minds,²⁹ that comes through the Holy Spirit using the word of God to touch them at their area of need, that contact with reality is achieved.