Welcome to culture and Christianity.

You know, our goal I'm sure you know by now,

is to take our faith outside the walls of the church.

We want the church to impact culture,

not for the church to be shaped by our culture.

To do that, we've all got to use our voice.

We just are overcoming, living through the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Christian martyr in America in 2025.

That's still a hard sentence to say.

But, you know, his memorial service was remarkable.

I was able to watch a significant portion of that.

So much of it was like a worship service honoring God, the message of truth being

told on the largest imaginable stage, it seemed a great honor to Charlie, but greater than that,

an honor to the kingdom of God and our Lord and King. A lot of people are saying, you know,

it's the seeds of revival, the beginning of a revival. I pray that's true, but revival isn't going to be

tracked by big public worship services or great crowds even. Revival ultimately is about the

transformation of human lives and it's most evident in the transformation of human behavior.

And I think a part of the question is how do we recognize it when we see it?

Well, we just hosted a conference here on our campus in Murphreysboro regarding culture and Christianity. And one of the segments, we spent a half, we spent a whole afternoon with a group of pastor friends of mine talking about culture and Christianity. And then we did a panel discussion. That's what I want to share with you because we were talking about revival, what that looks like, what it'll feel like. Historically, it's not what we would expect. The pastors are friends of mine, Rob McCoy, Dr. George Grant, John Amundtchukwu, Gary Hamrick, some remarkable leaders of the church in our nation. I believe the panel discussion will open our imagination and what we're looking for God to be doing

in this immediate season.

God is moving in the earth,

but it's going to take understanding hearts

and our ability to see in some new ways

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