Christian scholars and Pastors often critique culture, music, ot television and make ethical judgments without full recognition of the culture attitudes and biases hidden in their own subconscious.
Youth Leaders and seminarians have received a great deal of instruction about the Christian life, missions, and the church. But how are we to live in the world? what do we have in common with neighbors who are not Christias?
No one can live without culture. Living in any particular culture, Chistians are under a mandate to follow principles that provide for human growth.
We live in that which we must leave. Our lives have complicated dimensions, but we share in God's intention for our common good.
We have to understand that we live in a world full of different cultures, and that we have to be able to preach the gospel to all the creation without any distintion. But we also need to be careful in what type of thing we get involve, we must be sure and know our code of ethics, and our limits and bounderies, so we dont cross that line in between being part of this world and being in the world.
We also find that the Bible support both ideas of being complete set apart of what we call "The Word", but we also find that the Bible support the idea of being in the worl, and receiving what the world receive.
The Bible is clear when it talks abouth wath is worldy and what is the World, the world in resume is the perfect creation of God, and we must be glad to live in that perfect creation, but we also have to understand that the princes of the earth, Satan, has used what the world is, and turn it to what he want it to be, creating a worldy desire, of thing without any sense or just focused to what mean to be apart of God.
Both extrems are far away of what God would like to hear, we as Youth Pastor should stand in between, creating a balance in what culture say, keeping the ministry high and modern, but at the same time that we get new thecnology, but need to keep working and getting our christian live modern, I dont mean with this that we have to change what we are, but we need to add new items at what we do, and how we approach different situation that come with the progress, and the new thinking process, and the presure, etc.
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Hi Felipe,
I would agree, that it is a fine balance between the gospel and culture... and yet we are all called to this balancing act if we are going to remain committed to the ORTHODOXY of our faith while ensuring the RELEVANCY of our message and involvement in the world. It is like a tight-rope act. Without relevancy, orthodoxy is misunderstood, cold and disconnected - how can the gospel penetrate lives in this environment? If relevancy is stressed over and above orthodoxy, how easily it would be for the gospel to become something other than what it is = this would water down our faith...
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