Society

Well, I was cleaning my bathroom, and was thinking again about another of those issues that haunt me all the time. I thought I might as well put that down as well....who needs to sleep. ;-)

How is the church to affect society? Society and the church has never seemed to be happy bedmates. When they are too much intertwined, the society seems to flurish morally, but the church tends to weaken dramatically and get so mixed up in politics that it loses its focus of being the bride of Christ... Yet, morally corrupt societies without a strong church voice tend towards dictatorships and communism and nazism and other such rot...

Our own history has had it's own interesting twists... Around the turn of this century, there seems to have been an abandonment of the realms of higher learning for a more grass roots, revival evangelism Christianity. It almost appeared to a conscious effort to forget about trying to make a Christian culture to reaching out to the individual. I am still not clear on how we got so quickly removed from the echelons of higher education, but the removal was affective, and Christians have struggled to have a voice because of that for close to a half-century. That is why Biola was begun. It was started to help the average Christian get Biblical training so that they could be better equipped to evangelise and encourage their communities and mission fields. This does not seem to be the central focus anymore. Actually, along with such cultural movements as ID, and the philisophical in-roads on post-modernism, etc. there seems to have been a shift once again towards trying to change culture from the top down.

So...which way works the best, and why? There is Tons more to be said about that, but I think I will only become in coherent if I continue much longer... Here's a question: If you had $100 million and were going to donate it somewhere, how do you think it would be best spent and why?
A) Helping build a Christian Tier 1 University (along with a research science school)
B) Build a Christian movie production coorperation
C) Fund missionaries, Gideon Bibles, and Wicliff translators
D) Build a beautiful Church in a huge suburbia
E) ?
If you would do some combination, why that particular combination? What do you think would be most affective?