As far as I can tell, this has been my most talked about blog entry ever:
The Big Lie
Every time we Christians talk about our need to reach contemporary culture we are telling a lie to ourselves and others–a lie that worsens the problem we’re trying to address.
We are contemporary culture just like everyone else who is now alive. We don’t have to reach anywhere. We’re already here.
Speech about reaching contemporary culture reveals our ongoing effort to keep the gospel away from most of who we are.
Good stuff Mark. Keep it up bruddah.
Anikisan
I’m curious, what language would you prefer? Reaching “the world”?
An interesting thought, indeed.
Mark, it’s refreshing to find somebody still making sense when everyone else seems to be talking with his mouth full.
Andrew, we need to share the Gospel with people. The problem with reaching “the culture,” is that we’re pretending not to be part of it. If the culture is unreached then, in a real way, so are we. Our six-day-a-week selves must be equally (or almost) as autonomous as everyone else is.