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January 29, 2008
Changing the Culture
There is a lot of talk (probably too much talk) about Christians "changing the culture". As Christians look out over an increasing secular culture controlled by people who seem less interested in informing the population than celebrating their own loins, many are searching for ways to turn the culture around before it becomes completely useless.

John Seel has a fantastic article on Christians and cultural change. His views on the subject are not only carefully crafted but also simply dead-on. Click here to read his post over at the Trinity Forum


HT: Phil Cooke at The Change Revolution.

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posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 9:25 PM




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Anonymous ron said...

"Survey findings, as well as casual observation, tell us that young people believe that personal spirituality is cool, but organized religion is not... In response, church leaders seek to repackage church to fit the consumer preferences of a given target market. This is an inadvertent everyday deathwork. By adopting a consumer mindset, these leaders cede the authority of church to the consumer. A consumer-driven church no longer has any binding address on the worshipper."

The problem to me is churches have a hard time even defining what it is that makes a church consumer oriented. It seems to love surveys, and in my mind surveys are near the pinnacle of consumerism. The best thing surveys seem to do is show us how disconnected the church is from understanding its primary mission.

I think in general the evangelical church has made things too complex by operating from a survey mentality, and delivering the Gospel in a way that does not get the hearer to cope with what it means to follow Jesus and reject the ways of the world.

I will say though that there seems to be a healthy move away from too many in the church thinking Washington will solve our problems.

January 30, 2008 at 11:02 AM  
Anonymous pgepps said...

Very interesting article, good "chewy" thinking.

I left the "culture war" in the conventional sense (Christian coalition, social activism in politics) a long time ago--despite being a Christian cultural critic by profession (lit guy). I think Cal Thomas finished me off.

Since then, I've swung more and more to the opinion that any kind of Christian identity politics is (1) idolatrous, as it puts the nation's civic religion, even one that names Christ, in the place of the Christ of Scripture and in the church; and (2) wrongheaded, as it both corrupts the church and hurts our cause as Gospel people in service of another Kingdom entirely, which brings us to (3) the fact that we are putting Christ's Kingdom "inside" the nations of the world, when we make Christian Coalition style politics our mainstay.

All of which has very little to do with whether I will write explicity (I have and will) or tacitly (I have and will) Christian poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction (if I can ever work up to it).

Cheers,
PGE

February 7, 2008 at 6:25 PM  

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