Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The "Christian" Label: How the modern church deals with culture

I'll be the first to admit that I probably have a large stake in this, in that there are a lot of things that I enjoy and partake in a lot of pop culture stuff. Thus, maybe it just sounds like I'm trying to justify the things I do in the context of my faith. Maybe. I'll be honest, I'm going to be a little biased about it, but at the same time, I think it is a Biblically sound premise that the idea is to bring God into everything that we do (1 Corinthians 10:31), while certainly there are (sinful) things that we cannot bring God into, at the same time there are things that are neither explicitly for or against God outside of how we use them.

What I hope to accomplish here, is to get us to critically (and theologically) look at how we approach different things and to hopefully spur on Christian creatives to be bold in their faith in their creativity but also to encourage Christian consumers to be wise and discerning in a world of media saturation where certain truths (particularly about life and humanity) are either ignored or consciously subverted.