To Unravel a Culture

Fellow Labourers-

How do we unravel a culture? Why should we unravel a culture? Do we become syncretistic in our culture? As you ponder these questions I hope you will observe that a prominent part of our neo-Christian culture goes like this," If you can't beat them you join them." We are fast jettisoning all our moral and Christian distinctiveness, not to become all things to all men, but to become all men. We have become like Joseph's coat of many colours. In other words we are distinctly visible but indistinguishable from the crowd.

Was Jesus distinct and distinguishable? Culture it would seem is not static, but there is a framework within the culture that seems to be static. I believe that one of the problems we face today is a culture without a reference point. A culture that is free floating and not impacted by any moral gravity, and hence is careening out of control. It is the 'weak' force called gravity that has kept so many things in check. Our Christian culture should be that gravitational force to keep balance, but we have crossed the fulcrum onto the other side. Come let us reason together!!

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart