Glutton or anorexic?

How do we respond to or view culture?

What is culture?

Cultivation

Cultivation

15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

•Condemn it•Consume it•Critique it•Copy it

How do we respond to culture?

The anorexic approachThe glutton’s approach

•Create it

•Culture is not optional!•We are part of it•We cannot escape it •It’s what we are called to do - to work and keep the garden

Reasons for cultural anorexia

•Dualism•Confusing structure and

direction •A misunderstanding of

spirituality

Reasons for cultural anorexia

Reasons for cultural anorexia

Sacred

Secular

Reasons for cultural anorexia

Sacred

Secular

Reasons for cultural anorexia

SecularSacred

"There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan."

The need for a biblical understanding of spirituality

Culture - in all its forms

Worldview

Religion

Story

QUESTIONS

PRAXISSymbols

Who are we? Why are we here?What is wrong? What is the remedy?

Farmer Bell

Who are we? Why are we here?

What is wrong? What is the remedy?

Farmer Bell

A go ahead farmer is Jonathon BellWho works his farm and he works it wellHe doesn't hold much with the good old days.In modern times use modern ways.

Electric mechanical all that is newWhich does the work that men used to do.He swears by it all and he proves it tooOn his modern mechanical farm.

Farmer Bell

Who are we? Why are we here?

What is wrong? What is the remedy?

Windy Miller

Who are we? Why are we here?

What is wrong? What is the remedy?

Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton

Transforming Vision

Al Wolters

Creation Regained

How do you eat an elephant?

One bit at a time

How do we change culture?