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For what we are we responsible? Level of preparation has to match the level of competition Cultures do not get murdered. Cultures commit suicide.

Two great European narcotics alcohol and Christianity Nietzche Religion is the opium of the people Marx

Winston Churchill qt. (Paul Johnson, Heroes) Rousseau qt. (Social Contract)

Is your faith meant to distract you or to clarify? Letters and Papers from Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer (read, especially p. 369)

Most Important Purpose of life is to glorify God Humans were created to live on earth not in heaven

John 17 Prayer Our destiny is the New Earth (heaven joins with earth cuz heaven is where God is we will rule with God)

Christ saved you (not from your humanness) from your fallness from your humanity

We are Christians and we are Germans Therefore we are responsible for Germany! White Rose Society , Hans and Sophie Scholl

Acts 17:24 It is no accident that you are here now We are Christians and we are Americans Therefore we are responsible for America

Hans Scholls Letters to Rose Naegele

How do you put together the profound capacity of goodness and the profound capacity of evil?

How should we respond? Offended by Culture withdraw Distracted by Culture Assimilate *Distressed by Culture Engage*

G.K. Chesterton qt. If christianity should happen to be true. Charles H. Spurgeon qt. The Gospel is like a caged lion. If does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.

By what story are you living your life?

Is your worldview actually Biblical?

We are supposed to shape our culture, but 21st century Christians are being shaped by the culture?

Questions to Ask about Yourself (have someone help you answer for perspective) What are your loves? With what or with whom are you most intimate? With what/whom are you relating? What causes you to relate? What are your loyalties? To whom/what are you most faithful? For what/whom will you fight for? What causes you to commit? What are your longings? To what do you aspire? Where have you aimed your life?

(Your dreams do not determine your destiny your decisions do [at the end of the day]) Alice and Wonderland qt where you want to go determines how you get there (or something like that) What is success to you?

What are your liturgies? (liturgies habits, worship) What are the habits of your life? What/who gets your consistent attention?

(You may not live what you profess, but you will live what you truly believe [at the end of the day])

What do you worship? What do we value?

For what are we responsible, Today?

The Church should be Biblically Grounded Culturally Literate (many have too much focus on second)

Ken Myers What is Culture?

What is culture? Culture is not Nature its what we do with the world People Its as much us as them Structures of Society Its not eh hardware its the software Fixed and monolithic Whats western culture

Towards a Definition From cultura To plow or till Its what you develop From cult To worship Our focus

Diagram of Culture Internalization (what we breathe in) People Culture (whats normal) Externalization (Breathe Out What we do)

Culturally Literate READING THE CULTURE Whats Going on really? (look at problem not necessarily symptoms) Why is it going on really? Whats it like to live here?

(C.S. lewis qt. weight of glory)

Whats it like to be a human in our culture?

Whats a HUMAN BEING? (in our culture?)

Secularism has de-humanized society The Gospel Humanizes us