TGC 097 - Church and Culture
Church and Culture
Fr. Larry Beane
Politics flow downstream from culture. And the culture along with its politics seems more than ever to stand squarely against the church. St. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, "3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ . . . ." What are the weapons of the church's warfare against the strongholds of this world's culture? What should Christians stock up on, so to speak, so that they are ready to engage in the war that we are undoubtedly in?
Larry Beane (pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA, and Departmental Editor of Gottesdienst: the Journal of Lutheran Liturgy) walks us through the anti-Christian sentiments of our culture and its strongholds, so that we may be to identify them and then topple them by taking every thought captive to the obedience to Christ.
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