Culture is best charted as the values, way of life and beliefs of the people around you. In fact, if you look through history take note of the times when God moved and how it changed the culture around it.
That is what the church is to do, change the culture. God wants to do just that. Think about the culture around you.
Romans 12:1-2 (msg) --- So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Does that makes any sense? It ought to. Think about culture.
I keep up with one of the fastest growing churches in our neck of the woods. Steven Furtick is pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina where the culture is being impacted. In his daily blog Furtick wrote of how the church is impacting lives and the culture around them.
Impacting the culture doesn't mean you have thousands of people going to your church. It does mean that lives are being changed, people are being encouraged and God is working in awesome ways. I believe you could say that is true at The Community Fellowship.
This pastor is committed to impacting the culture and seeing life change as well as culture change. Think about culture!
That is what the church is to do, change the culture. God wants to do just that. Think about the culture around you.
Romans 12:1-2 (msg) --- So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Does that makes any sense? It ought to. Think about culture.
I keep up with one of the fastest growing churches in our neck of the woods. Steven Furtick is pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina where the culture is being impacted. In his daily blog Furtick wrote of how the church is impacting lives and the culture around them.
Impacting the culture doesn't mean you have thousands of people going to your church. It does mean that lives are being changed, people are being encouraged and God is working in awesome ways. I believe you could say that is true at The Community Fellowship.
This pastor is committed to impacting the culture and seeing life change as well as culture change. Think about culture!
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