Sunday PM

Al Mohler

• Discernment =/= taste
• 5 wrong ways of understanding culture:

1. Jump in all at once
2. Stay completely out of it
3. Take a dip in culture when it’s convenient and assume we can emerge safely (*guilty!*)
4. Taking a sip of another culture
5. Don’t view another culture as if you’re looking at an aquarium

• Matthew 22:23-34
• Jesus’ reasoning astonished both plebeians and “learned” people
• These great commandments tell us that every human being is my neighbor
• We have a resposibility to show God’s love to our neighbors but we can’t do that if we don’t understand other cultures
• God loves the variety in cultures and they’ll continue to be different in heaven
• All cultures are marked with pride
• Culture itself can become an idol
• Sin and confusion become obvious in culture
• Culture as a whole cannot be redeemed
• “No place is home for us and every place is home for us”
• No one’s going to look at what we did when the world is over
• It is easy for Christians to be seduced by culture
• Engage the culture for God’s glory!
• We can never separate ourselves from culture
  

~Note to self--GO DO ART! ~

• We do need detox from culture--thus Na and Sunday services