Case in point

In my home, I am leading a small group through the Truth Project, which outlines how the Christian worldview addresses every area of life.

In the second DVD of the study, R. C. Sproul explains the historical difference between morality and ethics, where morality used to mean what is and where ethics used to mean what ought to be.

“That distinction has been obscured in our day, and people use the term morality and ethics as synonyms, and that leads to what I call ‘statistical morality,” Sproul says.

People see what other people are doing, add up the statistics, and if 51 percent of the people are doing something, it’s normal, he says.

“If it’s normal, it’s good because the good is determined by what is rather than by what ought to be, and in that sense we have a crisis of the loss of the whole concept of ethics,” Sproul says.

Just last night, I witnessed this loss of the concept of ethics first hand.

As a staff writer for a local newspaper, I attended a hospital board meeting, and one of the members had brought in three top officials on the subject.

One of those officials began at least two of his sentences—probably more—with the words, “Many people think…”

In contrast, Jesus begins many of his sentences with the words, “I tell you the truth…”

What is your source of authority?