For those seeking to engage the culture in a relevant, Christian way…

“The Church and Pop Culture”

This should awaken us to take the Faith seriously, or, as Catherine Booth would exhort us, aggresively.  However, it should be noted, the sin is NOT in knowing pop-culture trivia - it is in not knowing Christian truth.  We don’t need to dumb down our understanding of culture in order to engage it in a relevant, meaningful way, but we do need to increase our understanding of God in relationship with Him if we are to have any significant, transforming impact ON the culture.

Read the Bible - meditate on the Word of God and hide it in your heart.

Know the Father more intimately through prayer - we have been granted access through the blood of the Son with the help of the Spirit.

I’ve read and re-read this article. It’s actually from quite awhile ago - I’m sorry that I’m just now taking time to post some of it here. Timothy George is brilliant - he holds a Doctorate in Theology from Harvard. I love his writings, his positions, and how he argues and articulates them. This is what we need more of in recovering tradition in the SBC, and evangelicalism at large. D.H. Williams and Steve Harmon are correct. Read this section of George’s article. If you want more commentary of the full lecture, presented at a Baptist Identity Conference, you can read it here at: “The Future of Baptist Identity in a Post-Denominational World, or, ‘Is Jesus a Baptist’?” Or, you can listen to the audio lecture in its entirety online by clicking the link here from the Baptist Identity Conference II, held at Union University - session X - click the audio link.
Retrieval for the sake of Renewal

When I was a student at Harvard Divinity School, one of my professors, Harvey Cox, like me a former Baptist youth evangelist, published a book entitled Turning East.

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