cultural addition

One of my favorite subjects to discuss is how to engage culture with the truth of the gospel. We talk at FEFC about learning what we need to receive from our culture, reject from our culture and also in what ways we can look to redeem our culture. Marvin Olasky has an interesting article with a great quote on this subject. I am not into politics at all and strangely enough this article is about politics. So putting the politics aside, I appreciated this quote that seems to get at how we can engage culture.


"Instead of working fruitlessly to subtract evil from the land, add the good. American conservatism can have a bright future, with God’s grace, if we are strong and courageous in developing positive alternatives to the cultural negativities around us. But if we merely praise our own Christian circles and curse the darkness outside them, we will soon be surrounded by it. This type of guerrilla cultural warfare can be more difficult than an invasion of Canaan—but God calls Christians to help transform the societies surrounding them."

Also, tonight I just read another great post on this subject by my friend Jonathan Dodson. Check it out.