Quotes about Culture

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

Lecrae's message is that we do not need to be afraid of cultural differences because Christianity has the resources to speak to every culture.

Long before pragmatism was developed into a full-blown American philosophy (see chapter 8), it had already been formulated and practiced by evangelical leaders.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.