Culture
What is culture? What would it look like to have a Christian culture? Is such a culture even possible? We believe that the Great Commission’s call to disciple the nations and to teach the nations all things that Christ has commanded is a call to completely transform all cultures and to turn them into Christian cultures.
This of course requires a far more comprehensive application of the Bible’s blueprints to life than most Christians have comprehended. Consider the meaning of culture: Ken Myers, in All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes, writes that culture is “a dynamic pattern, an ever-changing matrix of objects, artifacts, sounds, institutions, philosophies, fashions, enthusiasms, myths, prejudices, relationships, attitudes, tastes, rituals, habits, colors and loves, all embodied in individual people, in groups and collectives and associations of people (many of whom do not know they are associated), in books, in buildings, in the use of time and space, in wars, in jokes, and in food.” Christians of previous centuries realized that the Bible applied to all of those areas, and as a result the transformation of the pagan West was profound. Modern contextualization of the Gospel” has failed to realize the culture-changing purpose of the Gospel, and has instead produced an insipid and irrelevant Christianity that no longer has transformational power.
Henry Van Til once said that culture is “religion externalized.” A syncretistic religion will produce a syncretistic culture. The fruit will be mixed. Please join Biblical Blueprints as we seek to apply the whole Bible to the whole scope of life.
Educating Our Children at Home
For many people the school bus, a room of 30 students, recess, and the school bully are as American as apple pie. But is public education Biblical? Should the civil government be funding the teaching and indoctrination of our kids? This booklet explores common objections to homeschooling and the Biblical basis in favor of it since parents are to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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