British Christians have been somewhat satisfied over the decades with Queen Elizabeth's brief mention of Jesus Christ in her annual Christmas message to the nation. Those words have never been enough to bring reformation and reform to a secular, dying nation. Britain has reached a terminal collapse during those decades of Elizabeth's reign.

Americans also live in a morally bankrupt nation. Christians were surprised and heartened by the Christian prayers and hymns at the funeral of George HW Bush. They were even more encouraged by the more explicit and personal public testimonies by so many national leaders at the Memorial Service of Charlie Kirk. Yes, these remarks were remarkable in secular, socialistic, post-Christian America, and downright shocking to Christians in suicidal Britain.

But no ceremonial Christian expressions can restore the broken foundations of a once-Christian civilization. A successful reconstruction would rely on daily, righteous, faithful obedience to the law of God in every area of life. By every professing Christian.

In each lifeless, corrupt, demoralized and exhausted Western nation, Christians must model the essence of lifegiving Biblical culture and civilization at the local level -- in their families, in their churches, and in the civil government. They need to come out of the worldly, dehumanizing, degrading institutions of our time, especially propagandistic schools and corrupting screen traps. And they need to avoid the snares of religiosity, as Jesus warned in Matthew 15: 8, 9:

'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"

We Americans and our British cousins need to cultivate a radical vision of reformation and revival. We need to galvanize faithful, joyful, unashamed communities of Christians who know how to boldly restore the Crown rights of Jesus Christ in local and national life, and who then will make it happen.