Empowered: A Guide to Experiencing the Power of the Holy Spirit: Day 30
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
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Pastor Mark Turman was so encouraged by Dr. Denison's book about the Holy Spirit, titled Empowered, that he asked to record its 47 chapters as daily readings for his church.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.5 | Forum. Empowered Day 30. Changing the culture through your gifts. In 1951, Richard Niebuhr published |
| 0:17.4 | the best-known classic in the field, a work titled Christ and Culture. It was my |
| 0:24.0 | textbook in biblical ethics. It is still considered fundamental and foundational to the discipline |
| 0:30.7 | today. Niebuhr sketches the five ways Christians can relate their faith to their society and culture. |
| 0:38.3 | Choosing the right approach is vital to using your spiritual gifts effectively today. |
| 0:43.3 | One, Christ against culture. |
| 0:46.3 | This model argues that we must reject the fallen world in every way, |
| 0:51.3 | that we must have as little engagement with it as possible. |
| 0:56.0 | We are to have nothing to do with the cultural issues of the day. |
| 1:00.0 | The incarnation seems to give the lie to this approach. |
| 1:05.0 | If the physical world is inherently fallen, how could Jesus have remained sinless while inhabiting flesh? |
| 1:13.6 | 2. Christ of Culture. This model attempts to integrate the world and the Word of God, |
| 1:20.6 | the culture and the Christian faith. It blurs the distinction between the two and adopts |
| 1:25.6 | the prevailing culture as the way to understand the faith. Whatever two and adopts the prevailing culture as the way to understand |
| 1:29.0 | the faith. Whatever the culture adopts will be adopted and adapted by the faith as well. |
| 1:36.7 | The Great Commission gives the lie to this approach. Why go and make disciples of all nations |
| 1:43.3 | if the nations do not need to be evangelized and disciples? |
| 1:48.0 | 3. Christ above culture. |
| 1:51.0 | This approach teaches that we live in two worlds, the spiritual and the secular, and we must give each its due. |
| 1:59.0 | The one is not the other. However, the great problem with this approach is the sinfulness of humanity. |
| 2:06.6 | This model does not do enough to transform the culture it seeks to help. It lives in Sunday and Monday without seeking to bring Sunday to Monday. |
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