The 'R' Word Christians Need Now to Overcome Cultural Challenges

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Throughout the years, many have turned to H. Richard Niebuhr, who classically outlined the various responses that could be made in light of the interplay between Christ and culture, with such famous typologies as "Christ Against Culture," "Christ of Culture" and "Christ Above Culture." Yet what Niebuhr actually explained is how two authorities—namely Christ and culture—compete with each other. But the interplay of Christians and culture is less about competing authorities than it is active engagement. In other words, it is one thing to speak of Christ's relationship to culture and something altogether different to speak of Christians as transformative agents within that culture.Yet as Christians, it is our strategy for engagement that is most at hand and in need of examination because we are losing the cultural challenge. As Alan Wolfe has observed, "In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture—and American culture has triumphed." Though perhaps worded a bit strongly, Wolfe’s point is well taken. For Christians and Christianity to be the dominant religious demographic in our nation that it is, there is very little evidence of the salt that should be affecting our nation. One reason is clear: we have tried at least four approaches to cultural engagement—to retreat, to revive, to recapture and to reflect—and none of them have succeeded. Read More   TOP SERMONS Compassion by Jason Webb Read More Climbing the Mountain of Spiritual Maturity by James Merritt Read More A Lad and His Lunch by Jerry Vines Read More 3 Q's for Quarantine by Lenny Ports Read More A New Hope by Jeff Strite Read More SERMONS BY TOPIC

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