Week 9 - Response to Ben's Blog - Wednesday

“What if the Church could come to understand our culture well enough where we could present Christianity with the right methods and language?”

I have mixed thoughts about this comment. Church does indeed have to know the culture it lives in, and adapt itself to speak in ways that touches it. All too often, churches are simply out of the world and have no idea of the real issues and struggles of people from “the outside”, bringing irrelevant or sometimes even harmful answers.

However, knowledge of a specific culture should not bring the church to some kind of Christian marketing. We have to be careful that our evangelizing comes out of authentic love and compassion for lost souls, the poor and the hurt, and not just because we are trying to sell Christianity.

As we saw in the documentary, it’s easy to be interested in people for a personal gain, anyone can do it. We have to mark the difference by doing it out of genuine love.