Cultural Discipleship

God created people to live in diverse cultures and seek the good of the the city where we live.

In pursuing whole life discipleship, individuals must understand the beautiful and challenging cultural context they operate within.

Over the past 75 years, the West has moved from modernism through post-modernism and is now decidedly post-Christian. No longer is Christianity seen in the West as part of the solution.  Instead, recent research indicates that many see Christians as a primary obstacle to cultural flourishing.

Other studies suggest that outsiders see Christians as “irrelevant and extreme (Good Faith, 2014),” and most Christians as “hypocritical, judgmental, too-political, anti-gay, culturally archaic, and focused only on getting people saved (unChristian, 2009).” 

As Christians, our role is to bring light and life to the culture, to cultivate what is good, to create what is missing, to repair what is broken, and to oppose what is evil.

In other words, we are here for the life of the world.